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All archaeologists in Israel and Palestine make use of the New Testament Gospels. They do this because the Gospels exhibit verisimilitude. In… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
My fear, as a writer, is that I am a curiosity. That I can only bring you this peculiar condition from far… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
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If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we… — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
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There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were… — David Brin Copy Share Image
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After you publish a book, you become a writer and you're supposed to take it very seriously. You're supposed to show up… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Now that I'm in 'Nashville,' the thing that I'm loving the most is co-writing. You walk into the room and you shake… — Chip Esten Copy Share Image
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Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty… Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print… — John Newcombe Copy Share Image
There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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Building upon the world we created with 'Avatar' has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience. In writing the new films, I've… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
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But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration. A book, especially a longer book,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
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