Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I discovered John Truby ten years ago when a friend told me about his screenwriting course. I studied Truby's principles for a… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
“If all that one sees is a tiny speck of perspective in the larger scheme of things. And each perspective is made… — Nikhil Sharda Copy Share Image
If you're serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don't trust your memory.… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I've always liked being on the performance end of it. I've come up with different ideas, but as far as being a… — Christian Cage Copy Share Image
“You may think that you don't need to worry about actually learning the grammar rules because spell check and grammar check will… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing. Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle. A writer… — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
I think we all have a certain number of "coming of age" songs, and then a writer has to expand and grow… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
“Two opinion pieces written by local author Catherine Lim in The Straits Times in 1994 were good examples of the political climate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
On a spectrum of literary productions, memoir is just another form. If the person doing the reviewing or critiquing was ill-educated about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff.… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
The first draft you're pretty much on your own, so I love that. I can let my imagination go wild. I just… — Linda Woolverton Copy Share Image
“A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I want to talk about creating your life. There’s a quote I love, from the poet Mary Oliver, that goes: Tell me,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“. . . I understand that I was writing (recording) as well as seeking to right (to rectify) the wrong, and now,… — Sandra M. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
The thing about humour is that the super-ego is also at play, so what interested me, particularly in the last chapter which… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I think that most of my writer friends are really compulsive. I think that's great. It's wonderful for them. It's just not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I don't understand writers who feel they shouldn't have to do any of the ordinary things of life, because I think that… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“He started to talk about my writing and I stopped listening. It made me feel sick for people to talk about my… — Hemingway Ernest Copy Share Image
The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In the upshot there is only one answer for the preacher who wonders whether he is worthy to preach the sermon he… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes me six months before I find out what a line means, even if the writing is superficial... To do… — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I just love doing radio. I've learned to be more vulnerable through radio than even I've been through books and writing lyrics.… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
“In less than an hour I have to hold class for a group of idiot freshmen. And, on a desk in the… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“It comes back to the question, whom are you writing for? Who are the readers you want? Who are the people you… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Everything starts with what's on the page, what a writer has come up with. And whether it is a big studio film… — Joan Allen Copy Share Image
You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now… ... it's not… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
My devils and angels, fears and hopes, insights and stupidities, loves and loathings, are what they are. I don't edit them out… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
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