When I was really young, Dad wasn't that well known. I don't remember when I realised he was a writer, but I… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
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I don't think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“call “stuplimity” through a literature of exhausting repetitions and permutations, paranoia through a transcription-based poetry that continually raises the question of whether… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
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“For days and weeks on end one racks one's brains to no avail, and, if asked, one could not say whether one… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature 'adding to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are three distinct kind of judges upon all new authors or productions; the first are those who know no rules, but… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal,… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It's a good tip for writers, that - write with an actor in mind. Even if you have no hope of getting… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Good ink, good parchment, precious time - and all for the sake of a mouse in a glove.” Cian Brydydd Mawr smiled… — Hugh Lupton Copy Share Image
I've never been intimidated to write music, to minister through leading worship, preaching or teaching, or even writing a book or acting.… — Ricardo Sanchez Copy Share Image
Freedom to speak and write about public questions is as important to the life of our government as is the heart to… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
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The trouble today is that many Christians live in a kind of bubble of assumptions about what their Christianity means, especially if… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
It's a completely powerful and serious book, as good as anything in prose or poetry written by a 'beat' writer, and one… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
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“there is a great deal at stake here, many writers fight this battle and most lose it. what is at stake for… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
Sometimes I go outside after a long stretch of writing and I'm surprised it's not raining. Or that it's daylight. Or that… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Foreign writers - especially Germans - often feel that Shakespeare is really one of them, that he was somehow accidentally born in… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, there was no way I'd write a sex scene. That just seemed impossible. That's why in "Fight… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out… — Bill Withers Copy Share Image
The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I knew I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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