Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between a husband and his… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
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I don't think I ever have trouble with writer's block. It's different when you make it up as you go - that… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
hough I was creative, I also liked math and science. At Knox College, I studied creative writing and earned a degree in… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
When I was at the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' I was promoted nine times in my first 13 years. I ultimately went from general… — Stephen A. Smith Copy Share Image
For the first few years I wrote jokes and performed them word for word and then wrote tags for them and did… — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
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That idea of not being exactly who you write as is so crucial. Even looking at those words as I type them,… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
The moment you know that this is the person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life, you should… — Kay Coles James Copy Share Image
“On the great canvas of time We all create our own masterpiece. Choreographing our steps across minutes and hours Dancing over the… — Michele Jennae Copy Share Image
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight,… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it. And… — Nina Nastasia Copy Share Image
I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
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On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's just hard when you've spent so much time on something, writing and recording, laying the vocals, getting the hook right, getting… — Eminem Copy Share Image
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I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
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In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia.… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
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When the [US] president writes to Kim Jong Il, the son, the Dear Leader, he doesn't call him Dear Mr President, he… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
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No matter what, I'm never going to get an anthology from an actual publisher, though I could always score another music anthology.… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
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