Someone like John Prine can write a song that tears into your soul, turn it over, and write a song that makes… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
Narco fiction novels have a reputation, at least here in Mexico among some of the writers I know, of being somewhat rushed… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
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Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers -… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas. Eventually, that… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
The whole time I was writing, I had to fight my normal inclination to be funny, to sort of patch humor in,… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Even now, it's so funny how much we do have in common and how much her experiences were similar to mine. But… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“Practical advice.—People who read much must always keep it in mind that life is one thing, literature another. Not that authors invariably… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
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I don't like to read or write about life in its tiring entirety. Most days, months, even years are just filler between… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I began writing and became attached to writing at an early age. I began by writing poetry and experimenting with dialogues: modest… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
I had been a storyteller by instinct all my life. I was that boring little kid who made the rest of his… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
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I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know much about writing a show or being a show-runner on a show, but I can only imagine that when… — Alison Brie Copy Share Image
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There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came… — George Polya Copy Share Image
I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For… — James Jones Copy Share Image
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
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I had really not been out of the United States much, except for Mexico. I thought, "Jesus Christ, this [Russia] is like… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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Interestingly, if you write preparation out of history, leadership and preparation, the building of confidence among people who are exploited, you've actually… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I knew that I was a good writer in high school and won awards, and I was the editor of my school… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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![“I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of…” quote by Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/22e/anne-lamott-188_childhood_i-don-t-know-where-to-start-one-writing_3064070.jpg)
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