“We're all storytellers. We choose to tell ourselves the kind of tale we want to hear.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental. — Charles Thomas Newton Copy Share Image
You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
If it is true that every Cuban knows how to read and write, it is likewise true that every Cuban has nothing… — Jacobo Timmerman Copy Share Image
I am gonna write a book about my life, that way at least I will get paid for people being in my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I remember from my academic days, there were people who could never begin writing because they hadn't read every single thing on… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel. A novel journal has to be manipulated so… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers,… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you… — Lauren B. Davis Copy Share Image