I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see,… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
“Any act of writing is an act of empathy: you try to imagine yourself into another person’s mind and skin. I tried… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I've felt like I had to fight for fully realized characters with complexities or even start writing or producing myself. — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
“I will keep no further journal of that same hesternal torch‐light ; and, to prevent me from returning, like a dog, to the… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“The writers in the newspapers could sounds smart because they did not have the responsibilities of decision, and they could sound bold… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
A lot of '2112' was written in the back seat of a car and in cold dressing rooms while on tour in… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
I could not write my books without the library's help. Even with the ease of Internet research, I find books to be… — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things,… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
It's all still about having a good story. You have to have a good story as your anchor, as your main focus.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“A romance is never just a romance, there's adventure, mystery and movement. You need a grand, dramatic setting - the Swiss Alps… — Ida Pollock Copy Share Image
The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
At the beginning of 'Friends,' Matt LeBlanc was anxious. Every time he did something, he would look for approval to the director,… — Christina Pickles Copy Share Image
I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“A great literary classic should not require an introductory essay and ten pages of footnotes to be understood. It should require a… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
I did a little bit of picketing. I played a lot with my three-and-a-half-year-old son, which was good...And I went to Israel… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." ( Letter 16 , 1657)” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Writing is a struggle against the silence where words can have a powerful impact in just a split second and change your… — Lisa Jones Copy Share Image
When I wrote the book, I thought that I was the hero of my story. And in writing it, I came to… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Writing is like driving a car. Writing the beats of a screenplay? It's like driving a rover on Mars. You have to… — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom.… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
At first I was blogging everyday, but I don't do that anymore. It varies; sometimes I'll write these little essays and other… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form,… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge… — George Burns Copy Share Image
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I'm addicted to my BlackBerry. I get made fun of a lot in the writer's room for being on it constantly. I'm… — BJ Novak Copy Share Image
I was so broken when I did the first record. I was living in my parents' basement, I didn't know anyone. I… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
Take your time, however long the book needs. I've seen a lot of promising careers go into decline because writers succumbed to… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War. — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
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