If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's really hard to find stuff that is original. You pick up scripts and in four pages you know where it's going… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Most readers look at the photograph first. If you put it in the middle of the page, the reader will start by… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
I hope I never have to stop acting. I love it. But, I think the coolest thing about acting is working with… — Josh Lawson Copy Share Image
I think being an editor really helped me take other people's notes on my writing. I'd get a note like 'It's too… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It's kind of a mysterious process, but something will catch my attention, and I'll make a note about it. I may even… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Stand Fast Through the Storms of Life. "You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans,… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb...… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I'm interested in Native American and African American stories, and LGBTQ stories and stories of persons of mixed heritage. These are the… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast… — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
Facebook revamped its search feature. Now you can search for any post that has ever appeared on your page. It's helpful if… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum,… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I loved the tone and the characters. They're all very different and they're all very typical for their time. When you read… — Lone Scherfig Copy Share Image
In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically.… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
I finally get to the place where the book has matured in my mind and I can hardly wait to start writing… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
In daytime, you're shooting an episode a day, which is on average about 90 pages of script a day. That is very… — Trevor Donovan Copy Share Image
You can make an interesting character in a small portion of a movie, for a character that doesn't have that much on… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten…America owes a debt of justice which it has only… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'd trapped myself in a script… But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of… — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front… — Robert Vaughn Copy Share Image
All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible… — Bill James Copy Share Image
In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
