“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
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If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
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Asking for advice about what you should write is a little like asking for help getting dressed. I can you tell you… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
“A woman's ability to achieve depends on childlessness or childcare. In America, where we don't believe in an underclass to do 'women's… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think it would be exhausting and depressing, to write, to watch and to live, if it was just focused on drama.… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
When I applied to Stanford, I applied for graduate work in the PhD program, not to the creative writing program, mostly because… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
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The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Q: What's the biggest myth about writing? A: That there's any wildness attached to it. Writing tends to be very deliberate." [… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
In my music career, I never was interested in working and writing and creating songs based on what kind of rewards I… — Jihae Copy Share Image
When I naturally write a story and I feel that the guy is sitting across the table from the girl and flirting… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
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I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I reach readers rather unintentionally, I think, and those readers likely connect with the slant, the off-kilter, the part of the road… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
[T]he one thing I want for you is to recognize when you are really singing in writing practice and honor that. Trust… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have… — Jerry Jeff Walker Copy Share Image
“I ask for tons of notebooks for my birthday, the ones with college ruled lines, and I carry them with me, pretend… — Kenny Porpora Copy Share Image
As a writer who happens to be a woman, I am constantly devalued - even by other writers who happen to be… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
I think it's important to be able to write stuff that's personal to you and stuff that you'll really be able to… — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
“His principal assistant was David Matthews, the Tory mayor of New York, described by a Tory writer as “a person low in… — Thomas B. Allen Copy Share Image
We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's… — Art Garfunkel Copy Share Image
“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Everybody comes to the planet with certain gifts. It may be writing, it may be acting, it may be singing, it may… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have always trusted writers, books, thinkers, psychologists in figuring things out. Maybe because they don't know me, so they are always… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos , or the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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