Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It’s Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
“A part of me wants to believe that I was born an artist. That it was my inexorable destiny to become a… — Cristian Mihai Copy Share Image
They were a very good form for me - the way a short story has to be designed in order to function,… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
“Mania has been described as having a mystical quality, an example of which is described by the writer Theodore Roethke. One day… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
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As I'm writing, I start to see connections, and themes I didn't see, and that sparks other things. So then I go… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work. Tell someone out there who is lost, someone… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Most of my writing is an effort, one way or another, to figure something out about myself, and often when I read… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Foreign news is considered an expletive. Thoughtfully written analysis is out, 'live pops' are in. 'Action Jackson' is the cry. Hire lookers,… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Everyone has his own particular talent, niche and interests. Which isn't to say that you shouldn't try new genres or styles or… — Kevin Alexander Copy Share Image
The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who… — Rosita Forbes Copy Share Image
“The probable reason that nobody at Mikimoto wanted a writer to go to the pearl farms of Ago…was because something terrible was… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
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I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and… — George Michael Copy Share Image
The moment a writer begins to pay more attention to how to write than what to write, he begins to drift away… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I made the decision that I didn't want to spend my life in rooms and write about rooms, or else make books… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
There are stages in bread-making quite similar to the stages of writing. You begin with something shapeless, which sticks to your fingers,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“I write books that I want to read. I write books that feature curvy heroines because I'm a curvy woman myself and… — Seraphina Donavan Copy Share Image
I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It's not that writing staffs don't change at all, but they don't change very much. Directors are freelancers. There are directors who… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
What is so inspiring about [Louis] Brandeis's writing is he saw it as a tool for democratic education. He would say things… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I get letters from adults saying that they love the books because they are more in-depth with characterization than the comics. The… — Lisa Yee Copy Share Image
Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“A helpful exercise is to describe the situation from the beginning, either out loud or in writing, as if to a stranger… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Everybody said, 'You hit it so big when you were on 'Ally McBeal.' ' I didn't do anything for a year after… — Josh Ryan Evans Copy Share Image
J. Budziszewski is perhaps the clearest and most eloquent natural lawyer writing today. When reading his works I often find myself amazed… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
I sing the best when I'm really in my voice. It's kind of like I'm meditating but I sort of imagine my… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I'll write this all down for you," I said. "I'll put it in a story." I don't know if that's what he… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. It’s just… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image