Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“A helpful exercise is to describe the situation from the beginning, either out loud or in writing, as if to a stranger… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it… — Earl Sweatshirt Copy Share Image
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I would never want to write a character who was not thoroughly herself or himself. She's a very specific creature in my… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“Look at all the Eastern writers who've written great Western literature. Kazuo Ishiguro. You'd never guess that The Remains of the Day… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
I like writing dialog but don't think I'd be much good at a screenplay. I once had to write a treatment for… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Building out a professional profile on LinkedIn certainly makes sense, and bolstering that CV with intelligent pieces of writing is also a… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Normal, day-to-day things inspire you to write. I try to travel and chill, and go out and enjoy the outdoors. That makes… — Prince Royce Copy Share Image
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Not one piece of evidence has ever been found to support the Book of Mormon-not a trace of the large cities it… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
In my opinion, one of the biggest drawbacks about Sergio Leone films are the scores composed by Ennio Morricone. If [Leone] were… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I think we need a superhero in India that needs a great amount of writing and character behind it. if someone manages… — Sidharth Malhotra Copy Share Image
Brendan O’Meara’s Six Weeks in Saratoga is a victory to be savored by those who treasure good writing in general and tales… — Madeleine Blais Copy Share Image
I have been singing since I was two years old, my parents tell me, and started to write songs when I was… — Lene Marlin Copy Share Image
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
After the first shock of recognition - a sudden sense of "this is what I'm going to write" - the novel starts… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Christ is certainly distressed to see and to hear priests and bishops, who ought to be protecting the integrity of the teaching… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a… — Ike Barinholtz Copy Share Image
We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired.… — John Bonham Copy Share Image
Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I work with writers whom I believe to be true storytellers. And because I'm a writer, I pay very keen attention to… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I meet people ready for change. People who are fed up with the exhaustion that comes from devoting one's… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
I'm very much inspired by the Latin music, especially the romantic boleros. Not that when I sit to write a play I… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
“The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Schoolchildren all over America are told to write to authors-often to authors whom they have never before heard of, whose work they… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman… — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image