“(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.” — Sean O'Faolain Copy Share Image
“If you call yourself an "authoress" on your Facebook profile, you suck at life. You are stupid and your children are ugly.… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
“His only part in the story: to observe and remember the chain of events. Not all of us will be cast in… — Emily St. John Mandel Copy Share Image
We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something--a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question—-ignites… — Nadine C. Keels Copy Share Image
Over the years, I think, people - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
The natural creativity of the staff morphed 'The Daily Beast' very fast into what has become a newsroom. Aggregation lives on the… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have… — Jay Harrington Copy Share Image
“In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct. Society keeps dictating do's and don'ts which we keep… — Chitralekha Paul Copy Share Image
As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
“to paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow … we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains,… — Robert Krulwich Copy Share Image
Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.” — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
“lots of things happen in our lives without any apparent justification. but whatever happens to us,takes us one step ahead in the… — Chitralekha Paul Copy Share Image
I love Joy Williams, Lorrie Moore: such great short-story writers. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Audiences are just like us as writers - we grow attached to characters. In certain ways you don't want them to change. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl be not being able to write about… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.” — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
About the gnostic writers themselves and the setting in which they lived we know little, although gnostic Christians were influential enough to… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
