All the things you are liking in 'Breathe', the credit goes to the director and writer. As far as I am concerned,… — Amit Sadh Copy Share Image
I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Yeah, and the language the "we" has, and the character the "we" has. Because that was the part of the book that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I love my stuff - you're not supposed to say that. But because I'm performer as well as a writer, I'm constantly… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left… — Tom Van Vleck Copy Share Image
Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Nothing is sillier than the creative writing teacher's dictum "Write about what you know." But whether you're writing about people or dragons,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“I would say, for the moment, that community, at least community larger than the immediate family, consists very largely of imaginative love… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation.… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“I have said that His Dark Materials is not fantasy but stark realism, and my reason for this is to emphasise what… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Disappointment s cousin is Frustration, the second storm. Have you ever been frustrated? It happens when things are stuck. This is especially… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
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If you look at some of the language in the basic writings of Hamas, there is that famous call to push the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
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There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
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Every part of it is important; the film comes alive when you edit it, the film comes alive when you write it,… — Eoin Macken Copy Share Image
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Scholarship aimed at truly understanding what the biblical writers meant often does not filter down into the church and through the pulpit… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging… — Butch Hancock Copy Share Image
“There was one story that anger certainly lit the fuse of. In the 1960's, in my home town of Jackson, the civil… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Why a raven?" "To honor my father." "The writing under it, is that Cyrillic?" "Yes." "What does it say?" "Dar Vorona. Gift… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
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The Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
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The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
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