When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
There’s different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost… — William Golding Copy Share Image
You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that… — Craig Brewer Copy Share Image
I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been talking about with my critical writing and my own work is that these movies are seen… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
One of my biggest peeves is when the writer hasn't given you enough information to figure everything out. You should be able… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“If I woke up one morning and realized that all I ever was going to be was a business man, I'd probably… — Harley King Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the door opened and in stomped a giant reeking of the river, and before anyone knew what was happening, he had… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
When I was first writing, I was writing mostly about sporting events, which was really what my assignments were. I was working… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak,… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
It's always a strange moment when you get up on stage because in a way that's really the fulfilment of what you… — Alexi Murdoch Copy Share Image
There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal… — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
I think that in France, we really admire American films, we admire their drive, we admire the modernity and ellipsism in the… — Francois Cluzet Copy Share Image
Whether it's golf or writing, you have friends, and then you have 'friends' friends. Friends who are like family. I can count… — Sergio Garcia Copy Share Image
When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
Often when you're an immigrant writing in English, people think it's primarily a commercial choice. But for many of us, it's a… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about… — Carol Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But… — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept writing songs,… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
“One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull.… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. The four… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task… In order to dive into those recesses and lay… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
The thing with 50 Words of Snow is that it was literally back-to-back from Director's Cut [also released in 2011]. It was… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I write little quotes all the time to help encourage people to come together, like this one: 'If fate happens to toss… — Matthew Underwood Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to nudge my way into writing something scripted - maybe for other people, maybe a play - and I… — Ivo Graham Copy Share Image
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