What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can…

Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have…

— Nick Flynn

I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for…

— Cate Blanchett

“Isn't it possible—sometime—to try to know too much? There is such a thing as looking too closely, mon ami. And then we pay the…

— Ethel M. Dell

And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing.

— Sylvia Plath

The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.

— Werner Heisenberg

We read that Adam and Methuselah lived so many centuries; at that time, it was the custom to marry in the family - marry…

— Max Heindel

Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.

— Peter R. Grant

I work very closely with my publisher and just give them tons and tons of music, and then they link that with different songwriters…

— Dave Sitek

Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely…

— Darell Hammond

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice…

— Howard Fineman

Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're…

— Teju Cole

With Andy Cole up front they can score at any time. We'll be watching him very closely.

— Robert Laurent

The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.

— Wole Soyinka

I've always worked closely with the designers and whoever's making the costumes. Comfort is the last thing you want on your mind when you're…

— Kristi Yamaguchi

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score…

— Danny Elfman