There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered,… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
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The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to… — Tamzin Merchant Copy Share Image
Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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As far as I can tell, writing the essays didn't change the way I wrote poetry. Although the essays contain scattered passages… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor… — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
If getting a contract was relatively straightforward, writing fiction was far harder than I could have imagined, and there were moments during… — Saul David Copy Share Image
Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious,… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“it’s the way he uses language—which is nothing like the way fantasists used language before him. There’s no sense of nostalgia. There’s… — Joe Fassler Copy Share Image
There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of… — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
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If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
As a director who does not like to write, I am always looking for scripts that I can contribute to through directing.… — Jen McGowan Copy Share Image
I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the… — Karen Walton Copy Share Image
Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
My ambition, a long time ago, was to be a film music writer. A compromise then was to be the guy who… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“to permit writers to use forms which violate convention just might permit writers to develop forms which would teach people to think… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned how to combat depression. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
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it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
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I see this with experienced writers, too: They worry so much about the plot that they lose sight of the characters. They… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
“the journalist philosophy. This name is a nod to the fact that journalists, like Walter Isaacson, are trained to shift into a… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
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