I spend a lot of time in my bed. It's a good comfy one with a tartan bedspread. It's the only place… — Martin Millar Copy Share Image
But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It's all about the mood I'm in and the scene I'm writing. 'Cause work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing… — Lemon Andersen Copy Share Image
I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
There's a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there's a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying something. Or… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
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I didn't mind writing incoherently, up until about 1980, occasionally. But after that, I decided, might as well be articulate. And I… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
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When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
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I don't think I ever wrote a song. I can write a lot of jokes, but when I try to write lyrics… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I love television, and my love for it has made me curious about writing it. It feels like television's moving toward something… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
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I think Robert Altman could see things in me that I didn't know I possessed, which is really exciting. He also instilled… — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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Well, first of all I think that we have to be careful with terms like the working class, obviously. When [Karl] Marx… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
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In making Achilles and Patroclus lovers, I wasn't trying to speak for all gay men, just as when I write straight characters,… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
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