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I think I learned more about writing scores for Broadway by making mix tapes in the '90s than I did in college.… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
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Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Because I also write, I really admire Latinas who are creating content. That's the next step. We can talk about seeing more… — Chrissie Fit Copy Share Image
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing,… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
I think it worked two ways. One, a lot of people writing about the movie used that as shorthand and it could… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. The way… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I hesitate to say yes - I had writer's block, because I know there are people who've had really serious cases of… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my… — Reclaiming my Life Isabella Koldras Copy Share Image
I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I love writing, composing and producing music. It's what I enjoy doing most in life and I create so much material that… — Maya Jane Coles Copy Share Image
“Olive Wellwood had the feeling writers often have when told perfect tales for fictions, that there was too much fact, too little… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers,… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“I have devoted much of my life to studying, writing, and lecturing about the subject of happiness. In particular, I have advocated… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Writing for me is an ongoing practice of facing and countering fears. And so, in that sense, I have always been responding… — Jenny Johnson Copy Share Image
I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
We've done things that are faster at times, but it's definitely different when we direct all the episodes because it's like we… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
“So far as we know, Jesus did not write anything, nor did anyone who had personal knowledge of him. There is no… — L. Michael White Copy Share Image
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
To Me, the sky is not filled with stars and planets, It is a endlessly flowing vita, Of letters, and words. The… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
The truth about being a writer is you do not choose the stories you tell, but stories choose you. You do not… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
“An amusing writer of the last century, justly complains of the want of definite words to express, distinctly and unmistakably, the different… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad.… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“If a writer believes that women do nothing, then he will have to fantasize about their lives to make a good story.… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I thought I was depressed because I wasn't a writer/director. I moved into a space where I'm a writer/director, my movie is… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach,… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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