No one is born hating another person because of the color of their skin, their background, or their religion. People must learn… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, oh my god, I'm never going to work… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“Before I’ll take my clone on as a pupil in the craft of writing, he must prove his worthiness. He must write… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
From those who agonize that they may no longer be able to write off their private jet to someone who doesn't feel… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
From the point of view of logic, my report on 'Exclusion principle and quantum mechanics' has no conclusion. I believe that it… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and… — Randy Ingermanson Copy Share Image
I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
“I saw myself as a person that wanted to build their own house and was aware that I needed to have all… — Teddy Hayes Copy Share Image
I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
When you consider what you would love to accomplish in your life but feel ill-prepared to bring it about, picture the eighty-nine… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor. I'm not particularly fond of the… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I am writing from the heart and having a fresh approach to things. We [Theocracy] are obviously not trying to musically re-invent… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
“Woolf ’s control over the production of her own work is a significant factor in her genesis as a writer. The Hogarth… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I do read very, very quickly. I do process data very quickly. And so I write very quickly. And it is embarrassing… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of wonderfully talented, creative directors I've worked with in Texas, but the market we're in, they kind of… — Jackie Earle Haley Copy Share Image
“They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
From 1940 to about 1960, I had been writing just regular comics, the way my publishers wanted me too. He didn't want… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I've discovered I prefer to prepare a few notes or actually write the speech so I can really hone it down to… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“I don’t just want to write a story. I want to pull the reader into my ink so they feel the cold… — Lyn Gardner Copy Share Image
“In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
You can make bad writing 'OK,' but... you really need to start with a good script and with characters that are three-dimensional… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
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