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A common and usually unfortunate answer is “Write about what you know.” Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination, nothing is… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Knowing that a story needs to be told is a great motivator, even if telling a given story comes at a price.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Amanda herself couldn't understand why her writing was so different from her own personality. Her pen seemed to take on a life… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got… — David Cook Copy Share Image
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I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
I think the essence of fashion is lightness, frivolity, and I'm very nostalgic for the time when Bérard was doing the windows,… — Ines de La Fressange Copy Share Image
Over and over again women and men ... come to me saying, I don't know enough to write a book for adults,… — Mabel Robinson Copy Share Image
If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
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It is called working your ass off. The difference is what you are willing to sacrifice. For every writer who wants balance… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
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I used to always throw in random questions. I'd have to ask about artist's single and their writing process, which I know… — Ruby Rose Copy Share Image
Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
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Youngsters are coming up with so many new ideas and doing small budget films, which is good. Even my daughter thinks of… — Hema Malini Copy Share Image
Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It's always so rewarding, gratifying to me, as an artist and a writer, to see how this music gets more important for… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
Yesterday I went home with him and we did the usual things. I haven't the nerve to put them down, but I'd… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It was an incredible way to grow up, because words that you're taught - these definite things - you realize they sort… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
There were definitely scenes I struggled with more than others: the car accident and the thunderstorm are two that come to mind.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
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I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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As I write in 2012 we certainly do not believe that it is over yet, and the worst may be yet to… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
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