Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I would say that I am proud of my performance from Cracker and I think a lot of that was due to… — Boti Bliss Copy Share Image
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Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write… — Bob Weir Copy Share Image
Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians. — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
“Some stories can only be appreciated by the storyteller Some adventures can only be preserved in the heart of the adventurer.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in… — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
People talk differently. You can say some things some places you can't say in other places. But me as a film maker,… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
It's kind of fun at my age to go back and talk to business-school people. I tell them, "I can summarize everything… — John J. Legere Copy Share Image
There's a lot of craft in songwriting. The divine inspiration is when the idea comes. It may be a riff. It may… — John Oates Copy Share Image
“Stock and flow” is an economic concept that writer Robin Sloan has adapted into a metaphor for media: “Flow is the feed.… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Every poem, for me, begins with a question I don’t have the answer to, and here, in ‘Hypothesis,’ the question is whether… — Paul Tran Copy Share Image
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My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
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I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about… — William Safire Copy Share Image
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I don't remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it's out there so that I can… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
You don't want to start writing songs about how your Twitter followers are going up, because one day Twitter won't exist, and… — George Ezra Copy Share Image
The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I'm inspired to write songs by all kinds of things. Good sex with a good man, that might inspire a song. Bad… — Lady Saw Copy Share Image
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Writing 'This Is Who I Am...' I wanted to write a song about where I'm at, that I have accepted where I… — Vanessa Amorosi Copy Share Image
Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
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Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I wanted to be able to support myself without begging for handouts from the state. All of the writers I knew when… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
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