Tone is always such an important thing, and that's achieved through a multitude of people. It comes through the writing, it comes… — Harry Treadaway Copy Share Image
If you're meant to do something like writing and you end up going into banking or finance, your going to be miserable.… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Write every day. Don't ever stop. If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writing—and if you are published, keep enjoying the… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
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Brian Eno records and music got me through. It made me feel like there were other people out there who had the… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas.… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
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One decision I made in writing 'Henry and Clara' was that I would keep Lincoln's appearances and any dialogue by him to… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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I hear, Western people say, "The world was created for us." If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Most of the early Christian writers thought the text "I and my Father are one," was to be understood of an unity… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
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When I was young, I really identified with Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, particularly the character of Jo. The book was… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I was a lot dumber when I was writing the novel. I felt like worse of a writer because I wrote many… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Most games follow a real railroad plot, no matter what you want, you're following their storyline to its unavoidable conclusion. I'd like… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Write down how you really feel, not how you wish you felt or how you think you should feel, but how you… — Deborah King Copy Share Image
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