I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
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I am not sure we are going to see Republican Members endorsing Hillary Clinton. I think we will see plenty say they… — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
“As al-Biruni (Alberuni), the great Islamic scholar of the eleventh century, would put it, ‘the Hindus believe that there is no country… — John Keay Copy Share Image
Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Journalism is very much public writing, writing with an audience in mind, writing for publication, and frequently writing quickly. And I know… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I would assume that there is a greater amount of joy for you in being able to write and help produce your… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
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Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that… — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
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“I write so others might contemplate things out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears, to… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of… — Jack Thorne Copy Share Image
Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
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If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
I don't see a lot of narratives written where a woman who looks like me gets to be beautiful and sexualized and… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
We all have great faith in the writing team that puts together 'Heroes.' — Adrian Pasdar Copy Share Image
I'm always nice when I do drugs. But, you know, I'm nicer on the drug called "writing." — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
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My second clerkship was with Bruce Selya, who is on the First Circuit, and it was a court of appeals clerkship. I… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
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I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
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