For a while the creative writing community sort of sprung out of places like Iowa and Syracuse. The graduates sort of went… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
I'm an older, wall-eyed, overweight, tweedy writer who has been lucky enough to be asked to play various iterations of himself in… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, you're never off - for me, anyway. There's a certain mentality of people that decide, "Oh, we're going to… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
When you think about email or IMing, why aren't you writing back? I can see your avatar, I know you're online, why… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't really know what you're going to write about. I mean, there's times where you get into a writing room… — Gabby Barrett Copy Share Image
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Any fiction writer who has never had his work misunderstood couldn't have written a lot. Somehow along the way you are going… — Rotimi Ogunjobi Copy Share Image
Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all… — Alan Rusbridger Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living,… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough Copy Share Image
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
My mom's a children's television writer, so I was involved and around from a very young age. When I was eight, I… — Alycia Debnam-Carey Copy Share Image
“The connection being that in my head all language began in song and that the best stories inevitably reutrn to song, to… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an ocean of… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“As both Herschel and Whewell would remark in their writings on science, the scientific process is inevitably a social one. Discoveries are… — Laura J. Snyder Copy Share Image
Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else.… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I don't really have a set-in-stone process or formula. Sometimes the melody is there and I have to chase down the lyrics.… — Kasey Anderson Copy Share Image
“In the act of writing he experiences, today, an exceptional sensual pleasure -- in the feel of the pen, snug in the… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“I thought of my difficulties with writing, my struggles to articulate feelings not easily expressed. Of my struggles to find a language… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark… — Lahiri Mahasaya Copy Share Image
We can summarize electricity, magnetism and gravity into equations one inch long, and that's the power of field theory. And so I… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The proliferation of mass graphomania among politicians, cab drivers, women on the delivery table, mistresses, murderers, criminals, prostitutes, police chiefs, doctors, and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I write from the various experiences I live. Not every poem comes from my personal experience, though. It could be something that… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“The shoddy writer wants only publication. He fails to recognize that almost anyone willing to devote between twelve and fourteen hours a… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I'm inspired on a daily basis by my personal goals. I make it a habit to write down what it is that… — Laila Ali Copy Share Image
The President of the United States again, whether you guys like the guy, you dislike the guy, he's the smartest person that… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as… — Tristan Wilds Copy Share Image
I write the script; nobody sees it, not the people that put the money in the picture. I cast who I want,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“I believe I essentially remain what I have always been—a narrator, but one with extremely pressing personal needs. I want to introduce,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When I write my scripts, there's a point at which if I'm not starting to see them visually, I feel like I'm… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
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