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When I want to tackle a story or a subject, I always ask myself three questions: Is it important to talk about… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and… — Howard Frank Mosher Copy Share Image
I'd like to. But that's definitely not all I want to do. It's not the most intellectually stimulating thing that you can… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Millie's Cafe' driving out of Ft. Worth, Texas one time. I was in a dust storm in my old bus.… — Fred Eaglesmith Copy Share Image
I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I would say "These Days." It was the title song to an album I put out, and it's really this song that… — Mike Stud Copy Share Image
["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I first read Sigmund Freud's 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' as a young girl, and it helped me to understand that there are… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Who exactly do you want to be? What kind of person do you want to be? What are your personal ideals? Whom… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
There’s a big difference between death threats and love letters–even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
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I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I did have a love for literature that overpowered my hatred of the people who taught it, and I think because I… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
A precondition for being a science fiction writer other than an interest in the future is that, an interest - at least… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“The first impression of the writings of Mr. J. J. Rousseau received by a knowledgeable reader, who is reading for something more… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
“What are they like, writers, in your mind: it may seem strange, but initially it’s not about writing. A writer is someone… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
I believe in the writer's mission. He receives it from the word, which carries its suffering and its hope within it. He… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as… — Olivia Holt Copy Share Image
Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something.… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
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I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“When you've got creative momentum, the last thing you want to do is stop. I'd write and write and wake up with… — Kate Inglis Copy Share Image
“I have never killed anyone, fictional or otherwise. I have no idea what it’s like to kill someone, but it seems like… — John Green Copy Share Image
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me,… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
I didn't think [Ella Enchanted] would get published. Everything I'd written till then had been rejected. If it was published, I thought… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I wish my prose to be transparentI don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
![“["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The what if factor. I tried to write it cinematically and let the dialogue carry it but I forgot about the interior monologue. It's kind of hard to show what's going on in the…” quote by Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/398/hunter-s-thompson-278_book_fear-loathing-in-las-vegas-is-a-very-har_780146.jpg)
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