Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I've read horoscopes before and what they say. But I would actually love to not be what somebody writes down - I… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
The Simonian system can be extracted from the writings of Hippolytus. The cosmos begins with the one root, which is unfathomable Silence,… — Edward F Edinger Copy Share Image
There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
“I think that to be a good writer, you have to put yourself on the line, you have to think deeply about… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I recently found myself going through a period of uncertainty about my future as a performer, my status as a personality, the… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
“In fact that is why the lives of most women are so vaguely unsatisfactory. They are always doing secondary and menial things… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I'm a writer who doesn't much think about money because money doesn't really care about me. In other nations, art gets subsidized.… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
The original sense of the word 'influence' is 'to flow into.' For the most part, these writers that I admire... their style… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
It is a transition, from modelling to singing, but for me it's a natural progression. The modelling was something I did to… — Erica Packer Copy Share Image
Fans are people, and people sometimes get mad at air. I know I do. So I have people huff at me because… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Love as much as you can from wherever you are. This line is especially good to recall when you feel frightened, crazy,… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
“The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois; they are writers who are repetitive, obsessive, and impolite, who impress… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Fish,' I did the writing, design, and code all at the same time, so the form and the… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Would-be writers often ask me, do I ever get writer's block! I tell them, you get writer's block when you're imprisoned in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“As more and more norms disappear from social praxis, literature faces ever-growing difficulties. Its predicament is beginning to resemble that of a… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
There's always stuff to write about. So it's very gratifying on a lot of levels. This is stuff I got asked over… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I tried to go to community college for a while, and it's a funny story. I walked into the English class on… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don’t do that anymore, but I do knit,… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
In Canada, I've had success raising money. I think I was fortunate enough. But today, I would have to write a very,… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
When I first read the scenes I got to audition, I just could tell there was obviously something there. The writing speaks… — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It wasn't until many years after 'The Waltons' when I had gone back to theater that I had the opportunity to take… — Judy Norton Copy Share Image
I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Writers who spend all night writing, addicted to caffeine and smoking hand-rolled cigarettes, are a myth, Marcus. You have to be disciplined.… — Joël Dicker Copy Share Image
I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a folk writer. There's no such thing as somebody who's never read a book before suddenly sitting… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image