“George Blankenship, a top executive of Apple’s retail initiative when it began, explained the very real link between storytelling and driving demand.” — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there. — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
Writing for chamber ensemble is the thing that excites me the most. So when I went down into the cistern, I didn't… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
One of the biggest drawbacks of our industry is that we haven't nurtured our writers for years. Now, we realise we need… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct. — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
“The journals may give you an opportunity to express your feelings without inviting further tables.” — David Patneaude Copy Share Image
I have written, and I do write, but the truth is I don't love it. I can't stand the process! — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever. — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet.… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone… — Tommy Bolin Copy Share Image
Tone is always such an important thing, and that's achieved through a multitude of people. It comes through the writing, it comes… — Harry Treadaway Copy Share Image
You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read… — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
“He [Augustine] admitted: 'I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress by writing.'… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I had this knack of writing opening lines to my tunes. This helped in making an instant impression. — Anu Malik Copy Share Image
“Failing to be American (The Sonnet) I've tried to rekindle the American sentiment of my early days of writing, but in vain.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Do you think the ability to sleep in counts as a special skill?” I asked Dad, trying to sound torn over the… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
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