It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
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For me, the biggest thing was writing memorable themes for the new characters so that ultimately people would have the same identification… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
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“That any gentleman should always keep In stern control this writing itch we’re seized with; That he must hold in check the… — Molière Copy Share Image
Ross McDonald had a greater influence on me than any other writer. His style of writing, the repeated theme of the past… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
People don't understand that we're not warriors in their cause. We're a group of people that really feel that they want to… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
When you write an essay, of course you're going to get pushback, but you're going to be allowed to make your case… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You know, I'm a total perfectionist, and I labor over trying to get things right. Whether we're putting together an opening for… — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing.… — Melanie Laurent Copy Share Image
In some ways, it is difficult for contemporary composers to find an audience. Both men and women would love a culture that… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
I post probably 5 to 10 times a day in my forum. I have a forum directly related to my blog where… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
I'd moved to L.A., and everyone's actors here and writers, they were like super emotional and super in touch with their feelings,… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
“It is the importance of this quality of generosity in fiction that requires a measure of childishness in the writer. People who… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I was always a composer since I was a kid, but the BMI Workshop is where the networking really all stems from.… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Since we are made up of comedians and filmmakers and writers and improvisers, we have the unique opportunity to bring joy to… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity, we need… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
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I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and… — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image
I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own… — Barbara Christian Copy Share Image
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“I'm an alien in my own world, a writer without words, a musician without a piano, a magician without a wand. I… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
“I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A traveler amid the scenery of the Alps, surrounded by the sublimest demonstration of God's power, had the hardihood to write against… — George Barrell Cheever Copy Share Image
“when I am writing a book, I’ll go to sleep with a plot hole in my story that I don’t know how… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life… — Arthur Hailey Copy Share Image
“I die with the dying light, yet shine brighter as the darkness approaches. Soon I’ll be whittled to bone and stripped clean… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer’s job description. If you don’t care enough… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“My salvation is to let all this roll over me, to write, write and write some more. To hammer keys until I… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
