If you cant be a pencil to write anyones happiness, then try to be a nice eraser to remove someones sadness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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People were writing stories in the papers about me from what I put on Twitter - there was a lot made of… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
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Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use. — Jean Aitchison Copy Share Image
What I think of blogs is just this: Some are beautifully written and many are not. But even blogs that aren't necessarily… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
To me, the producer is there to make sure the album gets done and gets done as good as possible. So if… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures in writing 'The Dream Lover' was learning about some of the real people who populated George Sand's… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I don't know why he [Darren Star] is so good at writing for women. Maybe he just likes women. I'm not quite… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
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I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages. — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I like feeling warm inside a small home, knowing there's a set of glowing eyes out in the woods somewhere. It's just… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
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I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived,… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
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I started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
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