I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just… — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
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I've never really felt that being part of a literary community is all that important. It can be extremely detrimental to a… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“If what's always distinguished bad writing--flat characters, a narrative world that's clichéd and not recognizably human, etc.--is also a description of today's… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
Science is experimental, moving forward step-by-step, making trial and learning through success and failure. Is not this also the way of religion,… — William Henry Bragg Copy Share Image
I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans… — Layne Staley Copy Share Image
“I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend,… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
What's interesting in scripted TV is different than what's interesting in reality TV. Each of their departments have their development process where… — Dawn Ostroff Copy Share Image
While my stories are experimental, they're also very traditional. I love the works of the great Russian writers like [Pavel] Chekhov and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
I write about nuclear tests in Refuge - "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." With so many of the women in my family… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the… — Dennis Brown Copy Share Image
Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
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Sitting around home I mostly play acoustic. I've got seven or eight guitars of various sorts, including a baritone. Sometimes at home,… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
What you realize is it's not about financial success as an artist. A lot of actors and actresses, producers, writers, and the… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
It's so funny that people think I actually ran for President. I am maybe the most un-political person you're ever going to… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
I befriended a homeless man five years ago, bought him a new set of teeth, helped him get his life on track.… — Louise Linton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I cannot tell who wrote what. That is upsetting. With some sections, I can remember the place and time I wrote… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“In an extraordinary 2012 essay in Guernica, Pakistani writer Kamila Shamsie remembers the moment she noticed that no American novelists of the… — The Baffler Copy Share Image
One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
... I get more respect from rap artists than I do from my own industry. I don't always write the kind of… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
This book reminds me of James Gleick's Chaos. The ideas and stories in Loving and Hating Mathematics are timely, interesting, and sometimes… — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
“I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“I enjoyed your book. You are a descriptive writer who paints well with pen in hand. Your story had a bit of… — Josie Angod Copy Share Image
“... it is fatal for anyone who writes to think of their sex. It is fatal to be a man or woman… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was… — JR Copy Share Image
I'm not writing anything out of some sense of obligation, or for marketing purposes. This is just what I prefer to write.… — Hope Larson Copy Share Image
I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
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