I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
First of all I have to ask myself what am I trying to say and who am I trying to tell the… — Steve Bunce Copy Share Image
I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your… — Kerry Bishe Copy Share Image
There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart.… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees… — John Green Copy Share Image
Who are these bloggers? They're not trained editors at Vogue magazine. There are bloggers writing recipes that aren't tested that aren't necessarily… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
The lovely thing is, if Marvel had a Spider-Man movie over at Sony or something, they own the rights to the character,… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
When my editors and I at 'Rolling Stone' came up with the idea to do a profile of General McChrystal, I simply… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The challenge for me, and for Asian models in general has been convincing editors, stylists and photographers that we can have mass… — Liu Wen Copy Share Image
If you enjoy reading, writing, learning, and sharing what you have learned, don't hesitate to look for a life where you can… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The truth is, an actor's performance is the result of work by a lot more people than just the actor. When you… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
All the other editors at DC never gave me a moment's time. They would take the thing and give me a check… — John Romita, Sr Copy Share Image
Over the years since I became a Christian, I have always deliberately explained that I have 'accepted Jesus Christ.' These words are… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
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As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I can be a fairly hands-on editor, and when I'm editing someone I feel intensely invested in that writer and her work.… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
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I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
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