Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart’s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why do I write? Because, I am able to create wonders with a click of my keyboard. I turn my computer on,… — Barbara Brooke Copy Share Image
There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Now a narrative is a story, not logic, nor ethics, nor philosophy. It is a dream you keep having, whether you realize… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think people take Blink-128 more seriously now than they did before. And it's largely our fault because we called our records… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I love women who are bosses and who don't constantly worry about what their employees think of them. I love women who… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I really like the interplay between thinking of text as ephemeral and thinking of it as a concrete, physical thing. With almost… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
I use all types of instruments, really depending on the film. Instrument choices are very much tied to lighting, colors, art direction,… — Douglas Pipes Copy Share Image
“Every phrase had to be captured on paper or it wasn't real, it slipped away. I'd see the words hanging in midair--Camille,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Writing! There's nothing like it! Well, you would know! You sit down in a corner. By yourself. With a sheet of paper… — David Burke Copy Share Image
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I do worry that beginning cartoonists could feel somewhat strangled by the increasing critical seriousness comics has received of late and feel,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“What are you burning?" On a glance, just some papers. "I write in a journal." He spoke below his breath, so that… — Adele Griffin Copy Share Image
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I am never much interested in the effects of what I write....I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I write characters focusing on them as human beings, and then you wrap them within a culture. So I think I can… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
“Cancer is another forbidden or “whisper” topic. I read about a writer named Emily McDowell who said the worst part of being… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
This particular one was very, very heartwarming and is the relationship of an older man and a young boy that are essentially… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
During my career as a standup and actor, I realized it was very frustrating for me to get hired because Hollywood was… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
“When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing.… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“A lifetime's experience urges me to utter a warning cry: do anything else, take someone's golden retriever for a walk, run away… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It's a lot easier to make a living as a writer in Hollywood than it was probably 10 years ago, though there's… — Ed Brubaker Copy Share Image
“He who has perceived the material out of which the Promethean tragic writers prior to Euripides formed their heroes, and how remote… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research.… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
