I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience,… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I don't even use italics or boldface; that's clutter, not clarity. Fancy fonts are fine for blogs, just as calligraphy is fine… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen. . . . In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I don't use the social media but I can see the effects in my own correspondence. I get a ton of correspondence.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I had very little support from any feminist organization. But fortunately my post-marital lover, who had bailed out of academia over political… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
I honestly don't have many creative outlets. I'm not crafty - although motherhood has forced me to try to be - and… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and… — Chris Zylka Copy Share Image
Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I have this memory of being 15 years old, sitting with a friend on the steps of a little bookstore on Bloor… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“For some young artists, it can take a bit of time to discover which tools (which medium, or genre, or career pathway)… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I often call Daptone the Motown and Stax of today. But in some ways, it's different. At Motown, a lot of the… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I relate to what Gov. Romney brings. I know what it means to balance a budget. I know what it means to… — Sher Valenzuela Copy Share Image
Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
“Nothing ever really ends. That’s the horrible part of being in the short-story business—you have to be a real expert on ends.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't use the word lightly, in fact, I don't use it at all, but Ben Marcus is a genius, one of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“Until you're about the age of twenty you read everything, and you like it simply because you are reading it. then between… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The Cheers writers were the finest in television. But I felt like I was repeating myself; it bothered me a little bit.… — Shelley Long Copy Share Image
I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's… — Lalo Schifrin Copy Share Image
I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Books give us pleasure not because they make us comfortable, though some good ones may, but because they entertain us, they make… — William McPherson Copy Share Image
When I get into the moment of actually feeling like I want to write, to finish something, I do what I've always… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
I grew up with my little brother, and we were raised by my grandmother. I was an insider for real. I stayed… — Bryson Tiller Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary job--that is, no one can help you with it, bu there's nothing lonely about it. I have always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Each big idea like that is an operating system upgrade," she says, smiling. Comfortable territory. "Writers are responsible for some of it.… — Robin Sloan 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
Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like… — Gardner Dozois Copy Share Image
“If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
