I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
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'Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
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So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many… — John Updike Copy Share Image
It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
We write for actors and even down to the smallest character in the film, they all have their moment. You take that… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
Just as some of the most ardent political ideologues in the West are young people, revolutionaries, the '60s generation, - in Islam… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
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Everything I've ever felt, but could never put into words, is poetically orchestrated through Mat Devine 's writing. In a lonely world,… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
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I wasn't in a position that some other memoirists are, dealing with families who fed them meth, or kidnapped them, or did… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
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That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I don't know, but I do think that everyone has a story to tell. The question is, can they find the voice… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
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My new favorite thing is to wake up in hotel rooms, and write on the hotel pads. Usually, it's nothing. I leave… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
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