I have a Sharpie. I love Sharpies. You know what they say on them? Not for letter writing. That sucks. Now I… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
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Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey. — John Updike Copy Share Image
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I have tons of stuff that, you know, seems like it's a well-constructed sentence but it is not how people talk, it's… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
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The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
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We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
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I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I'm living the dream! I just want to tell actors and writers it's never too late, and it can happen when you… — Geneva Carr Copy Share Image
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When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing,… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
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I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the… — Laurence Shames Copy Share Image
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There are many writers who have influenced me and who I enjoy reading, but Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks are at the… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
We need more Black artists writing, performing, directing, and producing Black stories on the main stage - and not just in February! — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
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Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
There are Behan experts in international universities, but we seem to have forgotten him here in Ireland. He was an extraordinarily gifted… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
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