I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal. — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
I wouldn't put a big trust in what people in Silicon Valley say. They may be good at manipulating ones and zeroes… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
[The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I was teaching myself notes from three and then by seven I'd figured out how to play some chords, and at school… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation. — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Sam Hamill is a writer unabashedly taking his place within the community of literature and the community of all sentient beings-his fidelity… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience. — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall. — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
“God exacted interest like a loanshark, you paid and kept paying and still He broke all yr bones, one Yom Kippur, at… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Storytellers are master manipulators transforming non-reality (grounded in reality) into vicarious experience.” — Kevin Focke Copy Share Image
You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.' — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
“Some people have too many crazy thoughts to keep bottled in their brains. They're called writers.” — James Gough Copy Share Image
The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Automated gender analysis of my writings often marks me as male, probably because I write about technology, and also about war. But… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
“I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Don't be too concerned about the wingnut ears. Anxiety produces the wrong pheromones. Roll with the punches. Make time for life around… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of,… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
When you get an idea, so many things come in that one moment. You could write the sound of that idea, or… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
![“[The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As for our relationship with the fossil fuel industry, it's the same as everyone else - they pay for our ideas, we never accept money to voice theirs.” quote by Alex Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e24/alex-epstein-37108_absolutes_the-center-for-industrial-progress-model_3130143.jpg)
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