I think that's what good writing is all about. You go into a genre to talk about other things. Tolkein created a… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
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I just like a great song. I just wanted to be this true reflection of what is in my heart and it… — The Rocket Summer Copy Share Image
These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to… — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't know what that line is between fiction and non-fiction that other people have in their minds, but to me, when… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
When you're writing a 25-minute episode that can be anything, sometimes you just start with a character, and you let them walk… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“A writer must get beyond the thrill of a byline, plunge deeper than the words themselves, and dive head-on into a bottomless… — Kathleen M. Rodgers Copy Share Image
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
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“[I]t is really the ponderous books which I envy. How easy merely to put down everything you think or imagine. No holding… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
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When I'm writing good music and I'm caffeinated, I attribute all my success to the coffee, get really sentimental about the EDM… — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
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Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down… — Phil Coulter Copy Share Image
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My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so… — Marjorie Fleming Copy Share Image
I have this TV pilot I was writing for and a couple of films. It's just a different way to express myself. — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
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The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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