“This is our goal as writers, I think: to help others have this sense of wonder, of seeing things anew, things that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The average person might articulate them differently, but we all think about interpersonal relationships in one way or another. Writers just express… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But,… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
Being sad and going out on terrible dates and having horrible breakups and then having a shitty job and then quitting the… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
“In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin.… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
Fun, that's the word I keep on using. That's the word I worry about when other writer's scripts get too dark. Optimistic.… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your… — Mary Rodgers Copy Share Image
He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Senator apparently having overcome his loyalty to his wife and father. [Ted] Cruz finally came out and endorsed Donald Trump writing on… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
The reconciliation is not based on the fact that one of the characters opens his eyes and says, "O brother! O sister!… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“593 Still (very still), at the heart of “literary culture” is the big, blockbuster novel by middle-of-the-road writers, the run-of-the-mill four-hundred-page page-turner.… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“One of the (uncontemplated) pleasures of childhood and adolescence was how rigorously we exchanged comics and books with our buddies. As adults… — Pradeep Sebastian Copy Share Image
I loved everything. I loved sciences and I loved humanities. But ultimately, I felt that in the humanities, you know, you're writing… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Fiction always reveals a lot about the person who is writing it. That's the scary thing. Not in a straightforward autobiographical sense.… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Comics know that they do best. They might not be best to rewrite to another person's comedy, but they know what is… — Adam DeVine Copy Share Image
My father told me when I first started that standup is exciting and I should pursue it, but that writing would be… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I think in a way nobody doesn't work anymore. Even moms who say, 'I am out of the workforce.' They may be… — Suzy Welch Copy Share Image
Broadcast TV has a very classy but old-fashioned way of doing television. That's what it's always going to be. But you've still… — Jermaine Fowler Copy Share Image
I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Writing has such a power for expressionEven when you can’t talk with no one else in the whole world you can talk… — Piri Thomas Copy Share Image
It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making… — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
“I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves,… — Craig Lancaster Copy Share Image
Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps… — Jeremy Begbie Copy Share Image
I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it's a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
What's great is that a lot of us are playing so against type in this, and it's awesome. All of the writers… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
At some point along the way, I stopped being a writer, and I became a black writer. I never used to be… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
“It's a way of clearing the palate. Kids come into the classroom with all this other stuff in their hands. If they… — Joan Countryman Copy Share Image
Reality is a magic lady, sometimes very mysterious. To me she is very passionate. She is real not only when she is… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
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