I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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Sam Hamill is a writer unabashedly taking his place within the community of literature and the community of all sentient beings-his fidelity… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“INDIE AUTHOR= A writer growing, learning, developing their trade-set based on skills they are acquiring along their journey. (They are not in… — Eri Nelson Copy Share Image
My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or… — Bienvenido Lumbera Copy Share Image
Although I'm up for working in any genre, I do love the passion and dynamic storytelling that horror stories can provide. Dealing… — Barbara Crampton Copy Share Image
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“[A writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song… — RaeLynn Copy Share Image
I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing.… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
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Pictures are written, acted, directed, photographed, edited, scored and all that. The screenwriter determines what scenes are in and what scenes are… — Ernest Lehman Copy Share Image
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I want to stop. I want to stay on Fårö, and read the books I haven’t read, find out things I haven’t… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the 'Voices Compassionate Education' website and on 'Inner… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I hope I never have to stop acting. I love it. But, I think the coolest thing about acting is working with… — Josh Lawson Copy Share Image
It's not so important to me where I work. A lot of good writers and directors and actors come out of Hollywood,… — Clare-Hope Ashitey Copy Share Image
And then, movie-wise, I'm writing a couple of things. They're all comedies. It's the only way I know. I'm also being sent… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
If I write about something that I've experienced and somebody goes, "Oh my God, I feel the exact same way," then both… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
I just really enjoying creating in general; I used to also write stories and play music and do different crafts, but illustration… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out… — Jon Pardi Copy Share Image
Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
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Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted… — Ben Fong-Torres Copy Share Image
My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is… — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
“Writing is a luxury or, with luck, a rainbow of colors. It is my lifesaver when the water of the river or… — Silvina Ocampo Copy Share Image
I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them…But here you are, trying to remember your own life,… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called “The Social Network”] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and… — Marc Webb Copy Share Image
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
All of the guys love to take serious topics and go for it; we're not writing a whole lot of love songs.… — Jordan Rudess Copy Share Image
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