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I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
I find that, for me, it is this concept of borrowed or built life, life on loan, that gets me writing. It's… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
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“Quite a number of writers comment on the decidedly human character of the fairies, but it must be obvious that practically all… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Not so much that I wanted to give up rock writing, but I also wanted to try something new. So I moved… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Everybody dreams about writing one of those songs. I've had a lot of songs I'm proud of. A lot of them. But… — Everlast Copy Share Image
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I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
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I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Don't be too concerned about the wingnut ears. Anxiety produces the wrong pheromones. Roll with the punches. Make time for life around… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“There's nothing wrong with this. Other than sentimentality, the typewriter offers nothing special to the act of writing. What an author uses… — Todd Michael Cox Copy Share Image
If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden… — Deborah Ellis Copy Share Image
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
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I strive to use references that may still make some kind of sense once our age has passed into history. That robs… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
If the government doesn't fund education, which they often don't, students are going to stay home and not go to school. It… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
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Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Value the quality of your articles over the number of articles you write. I know a lot of bloggers focus on writing… — Jeet Banerjee Copy Share Image
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I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration.… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I'll just talk and talk for an hour, an hour and half, until funny things come out of my mouth - often… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
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