Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that,… — Zachary Lazar Copy Share Image
Antiques to Die For sets the gold standard for the classic contemporary cozy. Agatha-finalist Jane K. Cleland's writing is top-notch; her plotting… — Julia Spencer-Fleming Copy Share Image
The poet Amanda Nadelberg puts it nicely in an interview when she says "often what I listen for in poems is a… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
I use an IBM Thinkpad. I just use it like a typewriter, but when I started using it in 1987, I thought… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
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I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all… — Stuart Woods Copy Share Image
I have a hunger for justice, but art is a place I've always enjoyed being able to be free - to live… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write,… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
As a writer I'm committed to exploring what I call "The invisible things" - the things that people aren't talking about. I… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country,… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I thank you for your letter. I was very glad to get it; and I am glad again to write to you.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
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So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as… — Betty White Copy Share Image
Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Mickalene [Thomas] is an artist that I have admired for a long time. So much of her work inspires me - I… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
It's been hard for me to not write, and that's the only process I can speak to I guess, it's so compulsive… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Basically we learned not ever to do a show like that [ Gigi Does It] again. That took me to a limit… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
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Well I'm not a storyteller, as far as telling stories which relate to experiences in my own life. That's not what I… — Freedy Johnston Copy Share Image
There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
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The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
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Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get'… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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