“EACH RECRIMINATIVE DECADE POSES NEW riddles, how best to live, how best to write. One's fifties, in principle less acceptable than one's… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I need fiction, I am an addict. This is not a figure of speech. I don’t quite read a novel a day,… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“You could use a moth like that as a symbol in a novel, but it was trite, wasn’t it? The old moth-to-the-flame… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
Like a lot of us, sometimes I'm preaching to the choir, and sometimes my voice doesn't even get heard at all. Sometimes… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you've been there, you have no idea how it is put together.… — Bruce Vilanch Copy Share Image
“What someone’s lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
Movies are definitely more fun because there are so many different seasons in a movie. It is exciting to be drafting together.… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
I had to do this album. I tried thinking, "I'm not going to do it." But then I'm sitting there getting all… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
I am a big proponent of writing a great outline. That way you can avoid hitting a roadblock. There is no worse… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
There is no way that I could pinpoint just one person. When I first started, I was listening to Randy Rogers quite… — Curtis Grimes Copy Share Image
“Like writing, publishing is not easy. No endeavor worth pursuing is. Discomfort and fear are easy outs—and ultimately dead ends. They are… — Rossandra White Copy Share Image
“Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I think the reason the stories are briskly paced, when they are, is that I like story. I like stories where things… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up… — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
I do feel like a fraud a lot of the time because I've never been interested in people who say 'I'm a… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book like a rapper would write it - I didn't want to hold back. Rappers catch a… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing… — Robert Mark Kamen Copy Share Image
I was one of those guys, you know, playing and singing, and there was no reason for me to write a song,… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Daemonic compulsiveness can kill as easily as it can save. The true novelist must be at once driven and indifferent. Van Gogh… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“When I walk into [the studio] I am alone, but I am alone with my body, ambition, ideas, passions, needs, memories, goals,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have… — Mary Schapiro Copy Share Image
Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
I wrote a number of poems about Kah Tai lagoon, when Safeway was building that huge, ugly store down there where I… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“The elaborate search for a word, like the turning of a chain handle on a well. Dropping the bucket down the mineshaft… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
“Literature --which is art married to thought, and realization untainted by reality--seems to me the end towards which all human effort would… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
“As in the universe every atom has an effect, however miniscule, on every other atom, so that to pinch the fabric of… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I think about material that could work in the novel or story as I'm writing. I see if I can get there… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I think taking too long to work on a record you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
“Most people are afflicted with an inability to say what they see or think. They say there’s nothing more difficult than to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
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