I had the analysis of a million or so SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphisms] just to see what was there. That's partly because… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be.… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
You learn so much with each book, but it's what you teach yourself by writing your own books and by reading good… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The Christians and the Jews do not believe that the Bible is the verbatim words of God. In fact it is clear… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know… — Sharon O'Brien Copy Share Image
“We’re the ones writing this story. We’re in charge of how it ends. And I fucking love you enough to rewrite it… — Bronwyn Green Copy Share Image
People ask me: "Do I consider myself to be a Latino writer?" "What does it mean to be Latino?" Those are very… — Quiara Alegria Hudes Copy Share Image
I had to do this album. I tried thinking, "I'm not going to do it." But then I'm sitting there getting all… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
“Richard Foster is justified in writing: I am concerned that our reading and our writing is gravitating to the lowest common denominator… — John Piper Copy Share Image
If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about… — Jerry Harrison Copy Share Image
Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Growing up, I had to cobble together a scarecrow of things I loved from various different writers. — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine -… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Anyone can write good sex scenes. All you need is some basic knowledge of anatomy, the right vocabulary and some choice reading… — Claire Kent Copy Share Image
“Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!” — Margarita Gakis Copy Share Image
I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance. — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when you’re old enough, this story that… — Tatiana de Rosnay Copy Share Image
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you. — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“He is the monster they don’t know how to write stories about. You cannot trust him.” The” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
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