I try to use my privilege to deconstruct from inside the racist, homophobic, heterocentric house, as an ally, while compatriot tools dismantle… — James Allen Hall Copy Share Image
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
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Back in the day, a lot of our instructors in nonfiction were actually fiction scholars. So they would bring in stories as… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
“Friend, I am not suggesting at all. You see, I know now. Let us be frank. Our opinions were not honestly come… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Brighton Beach does not look, smell, or sound like Russia. It's a parody of Russia at best, something as different from the… — Lara Vapnyar Copy Share Image
The book was just something that came along after we played the Super Bowl and I wrote a little essay that went… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
If one writing contributed more than any other to the framework in which this work Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions developed, it would… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Aren't you failing English?" I asked. Angeline flushed. "It's not my fault." "Even I know you can't write an article on Wikipedia… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
We approach nonfiction at a much different level than we approach fiction or poetry or drama: that there's almost no room for… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My English teacher, Dr. John Lindstrom, taught me an appreciation for the written word. Until his class, I'd dabbled in journalism and… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
At first I was blogging everyday, but I don't do that anymore. It varies; sometimes I'll write these little essays and other… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
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Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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