In the Nordic countries, there are hardly any societal problems, but we writers are bloodthirsty people like anyone else, so we have… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
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I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
From American Idol to The Matrix participatory media - where old and new media converge by involving fans - is influencing our… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
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It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
If a context and a goal is defined I could say if it's good or bad. But overall I don't view things… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
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I did do a presentation pilot with Jesse Eisenberg and he's wonderful. He's such a great writer. He directed me and he… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
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I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“But the point is, when the writer turns to address the reader, he or she must not only speak to me—naively dazzled… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people… — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
I think my family's watched me over the years in my career, in my pursuit of my career, and they've seen the… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I feel like it… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
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But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus… — William Shakespear Copy Share Image
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“…she made a poem on it at once, the lines singing themselves through her consciousness without effort. With one side of her… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
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The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I could see why someone would want to make a website about me, and my quotes. They are all gold. How many… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
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I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic… — Melora Hardin Copy Share Image
I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is… — Gerald Jay Sussman Copy Share Image
... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I think where a writer falls on the realism/non-realism continuum has a lot to do with their sight, as in, 'This is… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Another aspect of yoga has to do with our actions. Yoga therefore also means acting in such a way that all of… — T.K.V. Desikachar Copy Share Image
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