I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
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I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
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I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
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When I'm writing, I really want to satisfy myself. I've got a story that I am working on and struggling with, and… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“What Is Fair Process? The theme of justice has preoccupied writers and philosophers throughout the ages, but the systematic study of fair… — Harvard Business Review Copy Share Image
Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
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I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
As a writer of worship songs, I have a hunger to write deep songs of passionate reverence to God. Yet I'm aware… — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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Sometimes you're writing a song and you have an image whilst writing a song. I don't think you ever base a songwriting… — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
As a speaker, I can inspire people to change but as a writer I can guide people to change. That's why books… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game.… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
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I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose,… — Charlie Albright Copy Share Image
I have a journal that I bought, a separate journal just to specifically write about my boyfriend. And in the very first… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
Let's not forget: This all began when you had eight- and nine-year-old children writing graffiti on walls. Their parents were told: "You… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
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Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but I recognized it. I knew I should… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
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Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
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