A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously,… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name,… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The crucial legacy of the personal computer is that anyone can write code for it and give or sell that code to… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you just have to hold each other’s hands and walk through it all.” — A.D. Posey Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in,… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history,… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get… — Valerie Simpson Copy Share Image
I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager.… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
