“Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
You have to fire yourself as the writer when you direct something you've written. You have to fire yourself, or else you… — Joel Schumacher Copy Share Image
It doesn't service anyone any to say, "This is a terrible violation in any circumstance always," because that robs us of our… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
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I want to keep going as I have, to travel, read, perform, write, and enjoy my family. I've promised myself only this:… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I wonder if Karl Ove Knausgård would've written the same books today had been using Twitter. It wasn't around when he was… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“The moon is the better storyteller for this event. Our ancient craters are smoothed over by erosion and tectonic motion. With no… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
I don't think people need to know much about me to understand the book, or to enjoy it. The book stands by… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
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I don't think things necessarily should have a meaning. If stuff has a meaning then why do [writing] about it? If you're… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When you're in the editing room, as a director, you get the opportunity to look at your work. As a writer, you… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I got signed to a development deal when I was 15. That fell through after about a year when the company merged… — Lights Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I definitely think of myself still as a writer first, and feel like - with the lucky exception of this - any… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and… — Lajos Egri Copy Share Image
“So what? What difference does it make?” How should this concept be applied? Is the biblical writer applying his idea? Where does… — Haddon W. Robinson Copy Share Image
Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
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I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Years ago when I got stuck, I'd start twirling my hair. That's not possible anymore. I can't prove the relationship between writing… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Everybody has to share something. This is one of the most important laws of the human condition, is the necessity to share.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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The Bible is all God's speech, as well as all mediated through human writers who wrote the individual books. It's a mistake… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I am not, at the end of the day, a mother, a wife, a writer, an activist, a friend. I am a… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition:… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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I think my writing has an old-fashioned feel to it for whatever reason. I'm just so influenced by the music that I… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
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