I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
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I was 14 when I decided I wanted to start doing music and stuff. I was a really big fan of Ben… — Noah Cyrus Copy Share Image
Generosity won't happen unless you make it a priority. The best way to make giving a priority is to make it the… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If I'm not in an environment where I can record, it's great to be able to write something down, to be able… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
I don't know that I make a big distinction between the big pieces and the little pieces, because I don't experience them… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
Gustave Flaubert said, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." It is not possible to write something you are not, but to have a new… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
I think a lot of Civil War stuff is written - As they say, history is written by the victors. And one… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time… — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
By the age of nine I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer,… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
The thing that bothers me is that it seems like all the sensitive stuff I write just goes unnoticed . . .… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
The exciting part about sitting down and writing songs, playing shows, or being a musician in general is that you never know… — Graham Colton Copy Share Image
I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“So we all know the cliché characters: the Irish cop, the prostitute with a heart of gold, the writer with a drinking… — Craig Hart Copy Share Image
I decided that I would do my best in the future not to write books just for money. If you didn't get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was writing the script I thought he is this guy. I really hoped...I kept imagining him as that guy. And… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any secrets to writing in the - everybody has their own techniques. You must be widely read,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It's in vogue to have a cause and give money in charity. But to actually speak up and say something like, I'm… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I write, and when see a movie in which it's supernatural, some other worlds, or some other aspect to our world that… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
“Utopias bore me. I'm interested in constructing messy, complicated societies that are full of flaws and then saying, ooh, this is interesting,… — Marie Brennan Copy Share Image
Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
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Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
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As you get drawn more and more into other activities, like political activities, very demanding, you have to find different rhythms of… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
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