“Producing works of art doesn't often count as appropriate intellectual work in an arts department: yet the equivalent in a science department,… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
My own experience as a reader and writer has been that the more I read, and the more I live, the more… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I'd like to work with some of the videogame companies for the simple fact that they obviously need some sort of writer's… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did and I'd say, well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
“Since reading and writing didn’t come easily, Irving learned that “to do anything really well, you have to overextend yourself. . .… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“Do not insult a writer by asking him questions related to books written by someone else. If you are not reading the… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but… — Paul Morabito Copy Share Image
If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I feel lucky. I do love it, mostly. At college I had it in my heart that I wanted to be a… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I mean, I think everything I do kinda follows a theme. I only write about a couple of things like some sort… — Everlast Copy Share Image
“ Tonight I Can Write Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, 'The night is starry and the stars… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“Ever since that day in Chicago, whenever I see such scenes, I think of a quote by Billat-Savarin, the eighteenth-century 'modern' gastronome,… — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in both writing and music. When I first started getting published, I also worked as rehearsal pianist for… — William Sleator Copy Share Image
Probably because I personally knew at least six or seven people in Ross County who died from overdoses in the last three… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college.… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“Writing … is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god. There is a little thing I neglected to… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Dont know why I'm always writing, I guess it keeps me calm and stops me from crying. I guess it's because I… — Resa Sataua Copy Share Image
When you actually sit down to write some code, you learn things that you didn't get from thinking about them in modeling… — Martin Fowler Copy Share Image
We're having so much writing some of the sillier stuff that never would have been on Mr. Show. And that's not a… — B. J. Porter Copy Share Image
“Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which… — Tim Conway Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ and all the writers of the New Testament call us to break free of mammon lust and live in joyous… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The laureateship [of U.S. Children's Poet] has brought me a couple of appealing contracts, including my first anthology, the 200-poem The National… — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
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