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Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try.… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I… — Mary Schapiro Copy Share Image
There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example.… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
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I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing for me is that when you're feeling very scared and nervous about something… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write science fiction. It was one of my first loves, and I knew if I became a writer… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I want the younger writer to know that she or he is meaningful, that what they have to say is powerful in… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The biggest names in the Transcendentalist literary circle visited the community regularly, and supported it, but they couldn't live there happily. Hawthorne… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn't want to be a passing thing. You know, now… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
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Leaving was tough because it got to a point where - I was dealing with so much, mostly being Undertaker's girlfriend while… — Michelle McCool Copy Share Image
I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I am not somebody who goes around saying men are superior or that male writers are superior. In fact, I really go… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I have a computational quality to my mind, I suppose. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with video games. I… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
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One of the nice things about moving from acting to writing is that your work can be in the public eye without… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I come out of journalism, and then book writing. There, it's just you and your editor and maybe a copy desk, looking… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
I don't understand people who write blogs and have children. You can't stop in the middle of bathtime and say: 'I'm just… — Michael McIntyre Copy Share Image
I'm really curious about the memory of Nixon for people who grew up under Clinton. What do people remember of him? In… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
When I wrote those first songs for the Truckers, songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day,' those were strong songs, very strong songs.… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life -… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I hadn't read or heard a lot about [Tom] Wolfe until I read this script, and in that way I think it… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
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The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
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