It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
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I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions. — John Updike Copy Share Image
'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
So much magazine writing is playing to an empty room. You work like a plow horse, your words get printed on a… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It's was all the internet. I started writing songs in high school, right about the time of the onset of Napster. I… — Graham Colton Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be allowed to the [writer's] table. So it makes me happy to be at the table. It sounds… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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I learned that you have to respect how much time and work a writer has put into their book. I always give… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“Creativity is closely associated with bipolar disorder. This condition is unique . Many famous historical figures and artists have had this. Yet… — Preeti Shenoy Copy Share Image
So, you’re hitting on Clare the Fair.” “I’m not hitting on her. I’m exploring the possibility of seeing her on social terms.”… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I got to do Disney Sunday movies. I got to do a TV pilot there. And it really helped me to realise… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
“I can taste fear, and lies, on a man's skin, Cavrax." The Master Priest whispered, watching the large pulse on the cleric's… — C.N. Faust Copy Share Image
Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies… — Erle Stanley Gardner Copy Share Image
“You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what… — Rodney Ulyate Copy Share Image
My dad is a storyteller. I've heard his funny stories 500 times, but I would never stop him because he tells them… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
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I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Minorities, Dalits, farmers, students, writers - all have faced the brunt of the Narendra Modi government and risen in protest. — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
That's all you have to ask from yourself writing a book. That it's the best you can do and that you did… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
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It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was… — Liza Dalby Copy Share Image
My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
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Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Write to me your most perfect epitaph, or I shall compare a poet to a lecturer. Thou art more Spartan than a… — Scott Jonathan Nixon Copy Share Image
I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output. — David Lowery Copy Share Image
The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
![“I really wanted to be allowed to the [writer's] table. So it makes me happy to be at the table. It sounds a little shallow, but if I imagine the shadow life, where I didn't get that chance, and all the ways my negative inclinations would have bloomed if I hadn't gotten the attention, but also the…” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82e/george-saunders-317_attention_i-really-wanted-to-be-allowed-to-the-wri_2675640.jpg)
