“(Writers of Earth-invader science fiction, please remember to provide all your aliens with soft grasping hands or tentacles or some other fleshy… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world… — David Amram Copy Share Image
My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
While I'm acting I'm focused on what I'm trying to say through the character. And when I'm writing, I'm just putting down… — Meital Dohan Copy Share Image
“One bright October morning in the year 1828, a lone lorn woman by the name of GUMMIDGE might have been seen standing… — Various Copy Share Image
I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
“The same skills needed for writing are needed or reading. Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and… — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
I've been a musician and a songwriter for years, since I was a teenager, and made my living doing that on and… — Rachel Parris Copy Share Image
By the time I got writing 'Halcyon,' I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write about,… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The concept of what I want to do as an artist has not changed at all. When I was seven years old,… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
“so much is against reading for pleasure, writing for play, looking without agenda, wondering, just wondering. too much keeps us from beauty… — Chen Chen Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or… — Maggie Carey Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I really like writing for specific projects. It's a whole different way of writing when you have certain guidelines and a theme… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman Copy Share Image
Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
“In a sane world, we would be heroes. Teachers would applaud as we walked into the school. There is the smart one,… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story. Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end… — Mary O'Hara Copy Share Image
You should write songs about what you feel, but you can't write in such a way like it's a diary entry. You… — Lights Copy Share Image
The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
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Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
When I say I'm instinctive [in writing], I do feel like I need to hide what I'm doing from myself. My mind… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
I just feel much more secure about whatever I write if I stand with one foot in reality - meaning if the… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
“If a story doesn’t wake you up at night, if it doesn’t nag at you throughout the day, it is not worth… — Raymond Bolton Copy Share Image
My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has… — Elizabeth Kenny Copy Share Image
Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
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