I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The magic in writing is not so much using your imagination as it is allowing the reader to uses theirs. When I… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
“Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The prose poem for me becomes a kind of chamber with no way out… a kind of hunt, because what is hunt… — Sabrina Orah Mark Copy Share Image
Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature;… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Movies are grander, with (in my experience) more heavy weight chefs in the kitchen: the studio, the producers, the writers. All of… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
The fact that I'm a woman is as important to my work as a poet as the fact that Ahmad Shāmlu was… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
It's very much a character-based play. Conor's writing is almost musical and paints pictures at the same time. It's a joy as… — Sean Mahon Copy Share Image
It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If you are willing to take the trip through 'Analogue,' you'll be rewarded with some of the best writing in gaming today… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
I don't know of any science writing going on in women's magazines, unless you count medical stories about things like breast cancer.… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I think I can pinpoint the moment when my first band recorded, when I was 14 and 15 years old. I always… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
I dropped out of my Ph.D. philosophy program at Northwestern in the summer of 2015, in my mid-20s. I kind of had… — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
That was actually Lloyd Phillips who was a Kiwi film producer in L.A. And it was about Gorgeous George, not Haystacks Calhoun.… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
Concerning alchemy it is more difficult to discover the actual state of things, in that the historians who specialise in this field… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton doesn't know how to counterprogram Trump, if you will. Hillary doesn't know how to go out and write her own… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a storytelling, and one of the reasons why people have held my stuff close to them is… — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion in any way, you shouldn't… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
In terms of sheer writing I might have done most of my work by 11. If you get up at 6:30 or… — Melvin Burgess Copy Share Image
“Nathaniel Hawthorne had placed the w in his name to distance himself from his cruel ancestor, his writing driven by his desire… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“They told us to depend on memory, because nothing written down could be relied on. The Spirit travels from mouth to mouth,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
“Lewis had said that there is no creativity de novo in us—that we are all sub-creators pirating and rearranging portions of reality.… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who… — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
I think it's important to humanize history; fiction can help us remember. A lot of books I've read in the past have… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
“Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Two things happened. The creative side of my career was harmed. When I'd sit down and write under the influence of coke,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child… My hemmings and hawings over… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The way that 'Vampire' was born was over a lunch. We got asked to do the show. A week later, we were… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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