“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller. — Danny Huston Copy Share Image
When I finally finished writing 'Sisters,' I started getting hired for lots of rewrites. — Paula Pell Copy Share Image
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me. — Santino Fontana Copy Share Image
I write every morning. Two hours. Then I take a break and become my own secretary for a few hours. If I… — John Fante Copy Share Image
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me,… — Trinh T. Minh-ha Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'Trick it,' the inspiration for this song came out of nowhere! The song is about the little white… — Dahyun Copy Share Image
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you'll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line of code. — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I was at home waiting for projects. I was on Parenthood and there was one season left, and I was thinking, "What's… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
I find myself in this bizarre position in which everything I write and talk about is pretty much about this issue, the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“While some of the earliest copies of non-biblical writings date to thousands of years later than their originals (Homer’s Odyssey is unusually… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once;… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I think one of the things the writers' festival does that is very good is that it brings writers from around the… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
“...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I am more comfortable in the actor's and writer's role than a director's. — Sreenivasan Copy Share Image
“In some ways, writing a memoir is knocking yourself out with your own fist, if it’s done right.” — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue. — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
“I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.” — Virginia Frances Schwartz Copy Share Image
Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot. — Bram Cohen Copy Share Image
I write songs. I perform. I play the guitar. I play the keyboard. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way. — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted. — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
