It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Here's what I think is good about 'Ted Lasso' and what I'm proud of in it, as a writer: It's about kindness… — Brett Goldstein Copy Share Image
My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I'm not a sketch writer. I know what I am: I have a sensitive comedic sensibility. What turns me on is subtle… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was… — Ami McKay Copy Share Image
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery.… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
The fact is that all the recording science and technology in the world is no substitute for a good song or for… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing -… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Much of the message that I try to put across to students is that they have to figure out what they really… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
I write songs for the same reasons most artists write songs -because I have to, whatever that means. Because I want to… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
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“I do not possess the ability to draw or paint. I can’t sing or dance. I can’t knit or sew. But I… — Aubrey Becker Copy Share Image
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends,… — Alexander Trocchi Copy Share Image
Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn… — Bill Bixby Copy Share Image
“Neither black/red/yellow nor woman but poet or writer. For many of us, the question of priorities remains a crucial issue. Being merely… — Trinh T. Minh-ha Copy Share Image
For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I'm deeply curious about all of my… — Tina St. John Copy Share Image
It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up. And I knew I could, at worst, work as a… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
“Say (O Muhammad SAW to Mankind) If the sea were ink for (writing) the Words of my Lord, surely, the sea would… — Quran Copy Share Image
Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world,… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“New Rule: The person who sat in my seat on the flight before me and could not finish the People magazine crossword… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary… — Agona Apell Copy Share Image
“I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I cannot write myself. What, after all, is this "I" who would write himself? Even as he would enter into the writing,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I would sooner be robbed by a fan than a company. The fan may be broke and have but one choice. There… — Mickey Newbury Copy Share Image
Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“And it was then I began to realize for the first time that there are two distinct sides to a writer of… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I had two competing ambitions when I was a child: I wanted to be a Scientist and Discover Great Things, but I… — Suw Charman-Anderson Copy Share Image
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Nebraska will transcend Springsteen, will immortalise him as a writer, because of what it says about civilisation in the range of… — David Burke Copy Share Image
When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most… — Sampha Copy Share Image
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