All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Sometimes to move forward you have to let go. I figured that out through opening myself up, allowing people into my creative… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. I'm very, very good at writing protocols. I've… — Bram Cohen Copy Share Image
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I would love to write a novel about my life, but how can I while I'm still creating havoc. It wouldn't been… — Don Copy Share Image
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages,… — Jeremy Davies Copy Share Image
Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Writing is making love under a crescent moon: I see shadows of what’s to come, and it’s enough; I have faith in… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Academic writing was actually about hiding what you didn’t know. There was a language, a technique, and I had mastered it. In… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
People just didn't write songs that were so directly emotional in those days. They still don't. Part of Hank's [Williams] thing was… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We've always shared everything - writing credits, all the royalties - and there's no real leader because if there was one, we'd… — Fred Schneider Copy Share Image
I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
All writers must go from now to once a upon a time; all must go from here to there; all must descend… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person,… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
“When a writer uses his secret wounds as his starting point, he is, whether he is aware of it or not, putting… — Michael D. Jackson Copy Share Image
Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that. — Michael Tolkin Copy Share Image
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for… — Christine McVie Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder if what I create as a writer will leave any sort of dent. There's really no way of knowing,… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to. — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint. — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
I do have a journal, that I write all my thoughts in every day. So that's kind of something. I also have… — Miranda Cosgrove Copy Share Image
I don't ever go and write music for an album. That's not something I do. I don't go and write music for… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
“Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.” — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
I remember writing the post but not what I said specifically, so I'll either repeat myself or say something completely different and… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
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