Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
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You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize - not, I suppose, at once but… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
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The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“stats say relationships decline when a baby’s in the picture but the truth is, if the camera doesn’t take good pictures now,… — Xayaat Muhummed Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention… — Melissa Manchester Copy Share Image
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter. — Caryl Rivers Copy Share Image
“You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and… — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
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All I care about really is writing something worthwhile for children, something that will engage them in some way and stimulates in… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of,… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what others… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I want to do presenting, I love DJing, I love writing but none of it's a guaranteed job so it's still very… — James Haskell Copy Share Image
Writing is a key differentiator. I've used it for 14 years. Writing will not just lead to differentiation. Writing is the credibility… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour.… — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
Plagiarism is one of the great academic sins. It has the power to destroy a scholar or writer and turn a lifetime's… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall… — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
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