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Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day. — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
I just like magical, fantastical stuff. I don't really see it as surreal when I'm writing. It's just, I write, and then… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the… — George Stephen Copy Share Image
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I've been writing so much. And what happens with TV is that they split [Taboo] into two blocks, so you get a… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think those women who get themselves to write essays, it's not an easy thing to do because as women, you're not… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you… — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Just get all of your ideas down. To me, writing is therapy and a way to clear your mind and step into… — Nick Cannon Copy Share Image
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
In the comedy world, there's always been one woman to five men. I think that's changing, that we're being respected more as… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
To be in conflict with the authorities is one thing. We Russian writers have got used to that. But to be in… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks they can write the perfect comedy that everyone will love is a fool. I can only write what I… — Brendan O'Carroll Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer, and then a director, was taking my creative life in my own hands, and wanting to have stories that… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday,… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
A lot of times if I'm writing, if something is awesome, something in me wants to go like, it's awesome. Let's stop.… — Edi Patterson Copy Share Image
It's really sad that Wonder Woman is, she's really a slave. She belongs to DC. She's not a living person. And so… — Trina Robbins Copy Share Image
I never had a plan to be a fiction writer. It's something that happened to me. Sometimes I think maybe it was… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the… — Shanda Trofe Write from the Heart Copy Share Image
When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The conscious imprinting that happens between, say, 10 and 16 is huge. I think it's so important for me as a writer… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I had gone from writing alone, not talking to anyone, to suddenly being in a room filled with not only people but… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image