As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories,… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Kindly permit me to tell you, sir, that I hate you. I hate you and your child, as I hate the life… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a… — Mario Copy Share Image
I love crosscut parallel storytelling, like we did in Blue Valentine. I love how Alejandro González Iñárritu has done it, and Quentin… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I always see nice images like that but I don't know what to do with them. I guess you share them with… — James Franco Copy Share Image
My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!" He slung his M16 onto his back and pulled out a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
There's a certain amount of pressure that goes with writing superhero characters, especially characters that are beloved to audiences. You know that… — Mariko Tamaki Copy Share Image
The writing process is more... it becomes a case of more like a diary for me. I mean, I write stuff down… — Christina Milian Copy Share Image
“My old friend, Gene Logsdon, who’s a fine writer on agriculture, and lately a novelist, once asked an Amish factory owner, “Do… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I… — Ramsey Campbell Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
Ever since I started writing in college, I have, save for a few short breaks here and there, been working away on… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“I left the bank because they wouldn’t deposit my cheque of poems. So I went to the store, but they didn’t accept… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“In Bernardo Soares – a prose writer who poetizes, a dreamer who thinks, a mystic who doesn’t believe, a decadent who doesn’t… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Every poet will forever try to write the greatest poem ever written, I have found that this kind of poem can be… — Michael Jones Copy Share Image
Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
The thing I always tell my writing students - I'm not a full-time instructor, by any means, but periodically I've taught writing… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I don't teach anymore, but I can still clearly see fifth period after lunch - that's a real tough time to teach.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of… — Santha Rama Rau Copy Share Image
She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll write a song first and then I'm like, "Oh this person will be great on this song." But there are… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I have not much faith in women in fiction… Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
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