Imagine Eminem writing a play with complex raps and syllables, and melodies flowing in and out. That's what it was like for… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on… — Liane Balaban Copy Share Image
I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
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I was hesitant to approach people. I'm socially awkward. But I was working on a number of memorials, and finally it dawned… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
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America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production.… — Tim Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
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There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you write, write about what you do and who you are, and you can't be wrong. Don't lie about anything. You… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“In fiction, especially in texts that are framed by a storytelling situation, aporia is a favourite device of narrators to arouse curiosity… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
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The Russian myth that they broadcast to the world, and have their various surrogates in the West repeat, is that somehow the… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout,… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas,… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
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A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds.… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
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