If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad. I liked… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
“It's great being a part time writer. If you sell books you're a success. But if you don't sell any then all… — Aaron T Knight Copy Share Image
I write about different things. Anything that has affected me. Anything that I have liked. Anything that I feel strongly about. Any… — Tabu Copy Share Image
I write and I write and a lot of times I go back to the American lens, though sometimes it's a struggle… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
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I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when… — Del Shannon Copy Share Image
I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I love to play music, and this is fun, and let's record this stuff in a way that we both like. That… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
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I'm Jewish, and my family is Jewish. I was very interested in Woody Allen when I was growing up, but I don't… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty -… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.” — Cuthbert Soup Copy Share Image
“The purpose of my writing, whatever I write, is not what may be right or wrong; But for when I leave this… — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look… — Danny Huston Copy Share Image
“The human authors and editors of the Old Testament brought their own experiences and presuppositions to the task of writing. We don’t… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves. — William J. Mann Copy Share Image
A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book.… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else:… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
[Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I've got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person… — Alex Chilton Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I've worked with some of the best of them. Not just directors like Sam Peckinpah and David Lynch, but writers like Sam… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
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