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You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job?… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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My touring isn't about collecting souvenirs and always being on the go. My souvenirs are writing in my journal and creating new… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
It’s a job. It’s not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
I will say, this is something, this praying for people to die thing, that's something that I came to believe was unscriptural.… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
Everything comes down to this: the reason for every word I have written and every word I will write. I am recounting… — Arthur Japin Copy Share Image
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By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers,… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
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In animation, you may be working with 20 writers, and everybody has to write the same thing. You can't have episodes that… — Marv Wolfman Copy Share Image
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script,… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
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Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not… — Mary Stuart Masterson Copy Share Image
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