Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
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The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. ‘They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
“It’s important to understand that a writer’s love for creation is only surpassed by their love of having the ability to dramatically… — Danielle Rose Copy Share Image
From the beginning [of the Lincoln in the Bardo], I actually had it in mind not to write a novel. I'd kind… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I cook and I chat. That's what I do. I love to write recipes, but basically, if you had to put it… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
Most development doesn't make it to series. So you want the writer and director to have a really good experience with development… — Sue Naegle Copy Share Image
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
“about that too, ma’am,” he said, writing up her citation, “but what made” — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back. — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I talk about myself. That's what I am. I'm a blogger. I have always decided that I was going to be an… — Mena Grabowski Trott Copy Share Image
I think it's great some hotels provide stationery. Because the first thing I like to do when I get to a hotel… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Most people quit. If you don't quit, if you rewrite, if you keep publishing in fancier places, you will understand that "What's… — Robert Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
Ideally, writers and narrative designers should be included much earlier in the process, where they can be of most benefit. However, although… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push… — Marc Guggenheim Copy Share Image
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I think the narratives on 'Trans,' 'Plans,' and 'Narrow Stairs' moved away from the way I wrote on the first couple of… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
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