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I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
There's no real formula for doing it, it's either just living life and writing down a joke you think of in the… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition… [I]f you should happen to write an… — Frances Brooke Copy Share Image
I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Writing is so hard… The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over,… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I try to write three jokes every morning, although I don't know what they are. I write them as fast as I… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Because of television, sports columnists have become personalities. I went to a party [during Super Bowl week] and there must have been… — Woody Paige Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, we often heard Islam in the form of a slogan: "Islam is the solution," but no one… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
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The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think the thing that interests most actors these days is the strength and the quality of the writing. I think that's… — Philip Baker Hall Copy Share Image
I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller. — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
Write to me and don't be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I'll break your… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
I might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit world is so interesting. — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know… — T-Pain Copy Share Image
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When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah,… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite -… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
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... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
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Usually I do not learn airlcte on blogs, but I would like to say that this write-up very compelled me to check… — Leidy Copy Share Image
Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
We have big limitations by not having a drummer. It instantly informs a lot of our musical decisions when it comes to… — Ted Dwane Copy Share Image
![“Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition… [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem... send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality.” quote by Frances Brooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c73/frances-brooke-84995_certain_don-t-you-love-quotations-i-am-immensely_478060.jpg)
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