about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut,… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
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The whole thing is this: If you don't use just basic grammar, if you don't get the language down, you're not going… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Nothing good about this but it's title. A priggish little yarn. And Hidden Riches is not a story--it's a machine. It creaks.… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
I am beekeeper, but I am also a writer, and some years ago, I sat down at a typewriter to experiment with… — Sue Hubbell Copy Share Image
I would definitely write to the kid that I was before, to embrace the moment. I think that often times when you're… — Sean Mackin Copy Share Image
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“In 1970, Alix Kates Shulman, a wife, mother, and writer who had joined the Women's Liberation Movement in New York, wrote a… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
I mean that's something we're very conscious of when writing. Tempos are very important. Like "Oh we can't play the song too… — Tony Palermo Copy Share Image
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I don't write quickly or a lot. Well actually I write quickly, but I don't have a store of things. I will… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
I find that I do my best work at the beginning of the day, but I'm rarely in a writing mood when… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of 'Golden Age tales' from the '40s… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I have a sustained interest in frippery. I can't refute the monster accusation, either. Some writers are awful on the page and… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to all kinds of music - to me, it's all the same. There's different arrangements and slightly different… — Anna Ternheim Copy Share Image
Writing those books ['Beauty' and 'Style']was really eye-opening, as you realize just how much goes into beauty and fashion, and also how… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
When you're writing TV or movies your vernacular is time, it's all based on rhythms, a character takes a beat or two… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and… — John Green Copy Share Image
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I'm a brown girl from a Punjabi pind raised in Toronto. I don't expect literary critics and purists to understand the nuances… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographical novel about… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative, I… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
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A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the… — James Keller Copy Share Image
If E.B. White were writing in 2013, would there be a 'Charlotte's Web' trailer and an @SomePig Twitter account? I doubt it.… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
I was talking to Cecil [Castellucci], who writes Shade, and I was saying to her, and she was saying the same thing,… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
“But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Yeah I was aware of the book, but hadn't read it. So as soon as I'd finished the script, I got a… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
People can write jokes five minutes after a major world event happens, and have hundreds of thousands of people read them within… — Nick Thune Copy Share Image
Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think the works of W.D. Gann and Robert Prechter have inspired me more than anyone else. It was from their writings… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
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