THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I… — Tess Gallagher Copy Share Image
One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and… — Gina Berriault Copy Share Image
I do feel that both visual artists and writers look out at the world in a similar way, and wonder at what… — Connie Wanek Copy Share Image
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When you are writing a spoken word poem, the tools you're working with are your voice, your body, how it's going to… — Phil Kay Copy Share Image
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The fact that I am constantly immersed in the act of legal writing and editing has made me a better and more… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you… — Lily King Copy Share Image
A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang,… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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“Elliott was disarmingly bright, according to everyone who knew him, an avid reader of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Stendhal, Freud, the Buddha, all… — William Todd Schultz Copy Share Image
I told [a big investor in The New Yorker] - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said`[Bill Shawn] pays very well,… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I had, never been, A writer. My words, My thoughts, My feelings, Had always flowed, From my lips. And yet now, They… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
A good writer can simulate a page torn out of somebody's diary, and give you every little voyeuristic thrill you might get… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
“No single theologian writing in Greek or Syriac in the patristic period exercised an influence in the Christian East comparable to that… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I find it's very confusing when one critic tells you one thing and one tells you something completely different. Unless all the… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context,… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There's a small movement of teacher-led schools across the country. These are schools that don't have a traditional principal, teachers come together… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
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If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came.… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
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A few years ago, when I was writing songs for my first album, I was staying with Michael Feinstein as I often… — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
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Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I was educated privately for free because I was a scholarship girl, 100% scholarship girl. I got it on my own merits.… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
I met him. Him; him who in the midst of my terrible sorrow, fell in love with my madness. Him who was… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
When I listen to my songs, they seem like pieces of music or art, like a painting that you look at. The… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
I was a lot dumber when I was writing the novel. I felt like worse of a writer because I wrote many… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
It's a tough time for screenwriters right now, because fewer movies are getting made. I'm enjoying television so much. It offers opportunities… — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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