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I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
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I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up… — Barbara Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The songs I write should only be gauged by what other writers or peers are doing today. If the barometer for all… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Copy is not written. If anyone tells you ‘you write copy’, sneer at them. Copy is not written. Copy is assembled. You… — Eugene Schwartz Copy Share Image
There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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If you want to do your version, go off and write it. You bring your knowledge to it, and you can use… — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
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I stopped reading William Faulkner because it's hard work. I want to read a good writer, but I also want to read… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“A profound impression was created by the discourses of Professor GN Chakravarti and Mrs Besant, who is said to have risen to… — Henry Olcott Copy Share Image
Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away.… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I read about a famous mystery writer who worked for one week in a department store. One day she saw a woman… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
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Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be in music ,but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
“The seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his… — Tyler Nordgren Copy Share Image
A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravity… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I can't trace thematic similarities between Then We Came To The End and The Unnamed to a life event; I think it's… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Writing controlled fiction is called "plotting." Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however...that is called "storytelling." Storytelling is as… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Readers," continued Miss Winter, "are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
I grew up feeling voiceless and powerless as a kid. I turned to books - fantasy books in particular - to give… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Part of our job is to dig deep and rediscover the joy that we had when we were first starting out. Also,… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
I didn't really know much about the Houdinis when I started. As soon as they sent me the script, I wanted to… — Kristen Connolly Copy Share Image
One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is like wrestling; you are wrestling with ideas and with the story. There is a lot of energy required. At the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Experience shows that if a sufficiently deep level--not necessarily the deepest level but one that corresponds to what the yogis call savikalpa… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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I am like your paper. You can write your name on me, scribble your answer upon me, use me to wipe away… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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