We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you… — Alexander Kluge Copy Share Image
You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
You know, it really doesn't matter what (the media) write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I had gone to work for 'Newsweek', left 'Newsweek' and went to work for 'Vanity Fair,' and then went back to 'Newsweek'.… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
For me it's liberating to write something sonically different every time that doesn't sound like anyone else. — Raye Copy Share Image
If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What I would really love to happen to me would be if I came upon an idea that would keep me busy… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never believe… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“One cannot judge in advance whether or not the idea of the story is worthwhile because until one has finished writing the… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
You do movies because you love movies and you write music because you love writing music, and sometimes there's this magic combination. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have… — Pope Paul III Copy Share Image
It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
In a sense, I feel like the job of the artist at all times is essentially the same, which is simply to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“It is the only life I care about—to write, to go out occasionally and ‘lose myself’ looking and hearing and then to… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“I’m fond of joking that when I get stuck in writing, I’ll kill a character or blow something up (in the novel…usually).” — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I'm writing for rappers it's kinda like switching, "Okay, you're not PJ. Now you have to act like a rapper." — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Storytellers are master manipulators transforming non-reality (grounded in reality) into vicarious experience.” — Kevin Focke Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'House Of Suns,' there were a few writers I had in mind as role models, the main being… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“All writing is a message in a bottle, cast into the sea in the forlorn hope of recognition and acceptance.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is… — Zaeema J. Hussain Copy Share Image
“Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an… — Nancy Mellon Copy Share Image
We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
A lot of times people do spiritual practice just for themselves. I try to turn that a little bit. I try to… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
