It's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt fights for an anti-lynch law with the NAACP, with Walter White and Mary McLeod Bethune. And she begs FDR to… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
“I’ve long considered becoming a writer to be the death of nightmares. For me at least, since I started writing I hadn’t… — Logan Kain Copy Share Image
“She learned that the best writing used dialogue almost in counterpoint to the visuals, so that what was heard was different from… — Stephen Galloway Copy Share Image
“Every writer on the Orient (and this is true even of Homer) assumes some Oriental precedent, some previous knowledge of the Orient,… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
High-profile columnists should remember they are in a privileged position. Writing isn't a dreadfully specific skill - it's taught to millions via… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
“With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“If Readers have prejudices, that's the writing world we live in. We must decide how to navigate it. We can't please all… — June Casagrande Copy Share Image
I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I'm not naive, I know that bad things happen, but most people do the right thing most of the time. Most people… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I absolutely think that women told that writing about themselves is somehow not worthy enough for a public audience all the time.… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
I have a notebook that I take with me everywhere. I free-write in it when there are situations that I know I… — Agent M Copy Share Image
“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I love a statement by the apostle Paul, in the Book of Philippians in the Bible. I think the Corinthians had been… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm thinking like the character in order to be as authentic as I can. But after a while, how would I be… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the idea of writing songs when I was a child. I thought I was going to be… — Leslie Bricusse Copy Share Image
More and more the writer is aware of an international community of readers for whom dense language use and frequent local references… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
There are three things I look for in a story - it has to be a thriller; I cannot see myself writing… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“the writer: "a spy sent into life by the forces of death. His main objective is to get the information across the… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
I like every part [of the film process ] except the business and admin stuff. The initial idea. Writing. Re-writing. Casting. Directing,… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I spent 12 years of my life writing stories without black people. That's insane to me. It's insane that I could have… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
“Artists and writers have always had a rather exaggerated idea about what goes on at a witches’ sabbat. This comes from spending… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Writer-directors are a little bit more liberal, rather than having just the writer on the set, because I think sometimes the writer… — Dennis Farina Copy Share Image
I work in musical theater because people keep writing quality stories in the genre, and I'm really all about investing in a… — Brandon Victor Dixon Copy Share Image
Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Even when I'm writing in character I'm normally still writing about things I know or things that have happened to me or… — Karen Walker Copy Share Image
There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In terms of moments that pushed me toward becoming a writer... My parents, my wife, and my English teacher in the 8th… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“The love between writer and a reader is never celebrated. It can never be proved to exist. But he was the man… — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image