I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at…

All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. Even the trees of the wood are glad over you,…

— Isaiah

Also, worldbuilding touches all aspects of your story. It touches plot and character as well. If you don't know the culture your character comes…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare…

— Harriet Doerr

The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones…

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist…

— Alan King

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

— Meryl Streep

And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic…

— Adam Parfrey

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way that's not…

— Keanu Reeves

Peter Fonda was just this clean, cookie-cutter kind of a guy. Roger Corman turned him into the motorcycle man with The Wild Angels. Jack…

— Alex Stapleton

The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant.

— Rush Limbaugh

I feel like, these days there's so much music and so many bands, that it's exciting to hear when people go through the whole…

— Panda Bear

That's cool." Hale nodded, unfazed. "But just so you know, that"---he pointed to the piece of metal peeking out from behind the stage---"is a…

— Ally Carter

I'd rather take risks than make something that's cookie cutter.

— Sandra Bullock

My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.

— Eli Manning