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I've always been aware that probably writing songs - stupid songs or, at least, theatrical songs - is, I dunno, I certainly… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys.… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
Keeping your sanity is sometimes stalling the business aspect of things and being OK with saying no to certain things. Sometimes I… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
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I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a… — Devon Werkheiser Copy Share Image
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It's just one of those things. When you're a wrestler you're thinking about one guy, yourself, your character and whatever guy it… — Ted DiBiase Sr Copy Share Image
I can go write an absolutely saccharine pop record with a really catchy lyric for another artist that could become a hit… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'm realizing that the people who criticize what I'm doing, their intentions and comments are not actually real.There's nothing happening in the… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
“I at this writing am an old man, only three years short of my three score and ten. And they tell me… — Andy Thomson Copy Share Image
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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Dear Suzie, I ain't have sex in a while. I'm in jail with my niggaz; beatin off to your pictures. You only… — Tony Yayo Copy Share Image
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As a young writer, I was sort of sailing around trying to 'find my voice' - for lack of a better term… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy, I've always written horror stories and monster… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“the past, writers on this subject have conjectured that the Antichrist might possibly bring back the French guillotine in town squares across… — John Price Copy Share Image
You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
We were encouraged to propose safetyprevention suggestions, and write them all down— locking doors, walking or exercising with a friend, wearing shoes… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A typical workday for me is getting up at about 5:00, 5:15 in the morning, getting some coffee or tea as quickly… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
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