“Flammable. An oddity, chiefly useful in saving lives. The common word meaning "combustible" is inflammable. But some people are thrown off by… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“You turn the lights on and off here and if you can’t sleep and want something to read there are books in… — Shannon MacLeod Copy Share Image
I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Polly was a writer of many deadlines. There were the ignorable deadlines, the not-to-be-taken-too-seriously deadlines: the deadlines-before-the-deadlines deadlines, and finally, the no-kidding-around… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“What reader or dreamer doesn’t imagine the romantic life of a writer, who lingers between the desk and the fridge in the… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another… — Ken Hensley Copy Share Image
I was really rudderless at one point my life. And once I started reading books, then I got the idea that maybe… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor,… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
There is a tendency to over-exaggerate and over-romanticise the place of a writer in a revolution. That bothers me. I think it's… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,” I said, “that makes it damn nearly impossible for me to say anything. I’ve… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I imagined myself on my deathbed, and I could hear my biggest regret: I never even tried to be a writer.” — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely right, so all your factual details… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
“Writer's Rhyme Word by word line by line, I'm gonna make this writing fine. I'll reread 'til I know that each sentence… — Peter Siviglia Copy Share Image
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail,… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate,… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
“Red", I write "is the color of life. It's blood, passion, rage. It's menstrual flow and after birth. Beginnings and violent end.… — Mary Hogan Copy Share Image
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
Writing and telling jokes is my favorite thing to do, and I want to be able to do that forever. — Michelle Wolf Copy Share Image
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