I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
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I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
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It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Good old Pete. That's me. But I find it hard to think of myself in the first person when I'm writing about… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects - television, radio,… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
“Insightful, creative mind, dedicated, and wonderful friend and co-worker whom I had the privilege to work with in Mosul, Iraq ‘07. His… — Carl Busby Sr Copy Share Image
What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper, write it in the present tense.… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
I was a screenwriting major at Georgetown, and I was in class with some really strong writers like Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I… — Nancy Spain Copy Share Image
Part of why I wanted to produce was because I wanted the opportunity to work on projects I want to see. As… — Bryan Bertino Copy Share Image
I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“You're a storyteller, Alice Edevane," Ben had told her late one afternoon, as the river tripped coolly by and the pigeons came… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
I'm still happy with the way Einstein's Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
I'm 44 now; I feel better than I did when I was 34. I've got more clarity now. I wake up in… — Bob Mould Copy Share Image
Certainly, writing a book was challenging. It took me a long time to learn how to do it. It took me seven… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this;… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What I saw quite clearly in the '80s, before the internet, was that the whole world was shifting toward digital formats, and… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
I've been doing short-form writing for a decade, and six years ago I signed with an agent, and we've been working on… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
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And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
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I felt ugly, chubby, and stupid until I talked to my mom about it and she had me do a very good… — Coco Rocha Copy Share Image
“Too often we sit back and speak platitudes of the nitty-gritty bits of writing; the editing, the story structure, the verbal sparring… — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I'm trying to figure out how to record at home because I have a tiny house and a seven-year-old and my wife… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
I have two wonderful, supportive and very practical parents who were like, you're really talented and really creative. You should be a… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I was speaking to a writer the other day and he gave me a valuable piece of advice. He said that you… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
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