I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
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I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
We're all the scriptures. We live the scriptures. The scriptures doesn't manifest unless it is amongst human beings and the scriptures are… — Sizzla Copy Share Image
“Writers haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven't got any military… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I once wrote a book on women in science. I realized when I was interviewing them that they were the equivalent of… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
It takes so long to write a script, thinking to yourself, "Am I wasting my time? Am I putting everything into this… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
“If you've spent any time trolling the blogosphere, you've probably noticed a peculiar literary trend: the pervasive habit of writers inexplicably placing… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
I went over there to 'black-ish' to be a writer on the show, but Kenya Barris - for no obvious reason -… — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
Writers get embarrassed sometimes in talking about how much fun writing can be, but drafting is often really enjoyable. Often, you're tumbling… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template, then that… — Joshua Greenberg Copy Share Image
A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If you give the actors a problem 'I'm not getting something out of the scene' and it's the writing, we just don't… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
It's possible that I would have been better suited to being a penguin keeper. Starting out, I thought being a writer would… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
It is true that the Drive-By Media is not spending a lot of time covering the Donald Trump Middle East trip. The… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I never considered myself a writer. I'm a teacher. In a way, I feel kind of... kind of guilty for all the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's my belief that I was a writer - a very hardworking writer - well before I was published. I did care… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
“Middle-age should be shot. Things about it gall me. First, that those younger despise the thought of getting old, and, hence, me.… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
Scripts were rather scarce in 1968. We did a lot of Amiri Baraka's plays, the agitprop stuff he was writing. It was… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I went on to write my graduate thesis on the ["Montgomery Story"] comic book itself. It was the first long-form history that… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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“Good storytelling is one thing rural whites and Indians have in common. But native Americans have learned through harsh necessity that people… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
When I was about 17 I knew that I was going to be serious about music. Before that I thought, fairly certainly,… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
Let's say that history is what happened. The record of what happened is how each individual happens to see those events. They've… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
I think that's what, to me, also talks about the silences in my work - as a woman, a woman writer, when… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
As a writer, I never want to have an author's message. I really want to present a situation with it in as… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Books are to be call’d for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is nor a half-sleep, but, in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death.… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the… — Carlos Barrios Copy Share Image
The work I'm doing on the screen differs from that of anyone else. My comedy is of a peculiar nature...no writers have… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image