By the time I was six or seven-years-old, I had learned several techniques of how to use my voice and was able… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
W.S Merwin says "after three days of rain" and I write "After Twelve Days of Rain." I like his quietude. I admire… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
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I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
“Machines produce only machines. The texts, images, films, speech and programmes which come out of the computer are machine products, and they… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid… — John Green Copy Share Image
Fiction writers learn about the development of metaphor, the use of rhythm, the way that language is compacted in order to express… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The only books I give up on are texts where the writer's attention is concentrated so heavily on narrative questions that his… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of… — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
“Don’t ever undermine writers for life is much about writing and memories are well kept through writing” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year. — Natalie Prass Copy Share Image
The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning,… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things. — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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