Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of… — Oliver $ Copy Share Image
I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I… — Rheta Grimsley Johnson Copy Share Image
“He was a district attorney in Pennsylvania. I was a writer on Cape Cod. We had been privates in the war, infantry… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that… — John Logan Copy Share Image
In his writings, Patton was shameless about his ambition to woo Lena to be his bride. He detailed the gradual progress he… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
“ The Scholars "Bald heads forgetful of their sins, Old, learned, respectable bald heads Edit and annotate the lines That young men,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Don't decide that you're going to be a writer or musician and just expect it to happen because it's a big gamble… — Max Bemis Copy Share Image
“We knew it was holy. Every sentence we cherished was sturdy and Biblical in its form, carved somehow by hand-dragged implement or… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
As much as I thought the end of 'Friday Night Lights' was a really great ending, I was one of those people… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
Once I enter the realm of depression or when I am at my happiest, those are the moments of realization when I… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist,… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
I think at some level, it's just alchemy that we, as writers, can't explain when we write the characters. I don't set… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing,… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
I think it worked two ways. One, a lot of people writing about the movie used that as shorthand and it could… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. The way… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I hesitate to say yes - I had writer's block, because I know there are people who've had really serious cases of… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
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I think I learned more about writing scores for Broadway by making mix tapes in the '90s than I did in college.… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
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What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Because I also write, I really admire Latinas who are creating content. That's the next step. We can talk about seeing more… — Chrissie Fit Copy Share Image
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I love writing, composing and producing music. It's what I enjoy doing most in life and I create so much material that… — Maya Jane Coles Copy Share Image
“Olive Wellwood had the feeling writers often have when told perfect tales for fictions, that there was too much fact, too little… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers,… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“I have devoted much of my life to studying, writing, and lecturing about the subject of happiness. In particular, I have advocated… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Writing for me is an ongoing practice of facing and countering fears. And so, in that sense, I have always been responding… — Jenny Johnson Copy Share Image
I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
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I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image