I am not fully forgiven until I allow God to write his new dream for my life on the blackboard of my… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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I think it's so scummy when 'friends' write tweets about each other, if you have a problem then be a real friend… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make… — Leon Bridges Copy Share Image
Every project that you write about or read about, it goes through years of hard work. We write a screenplay; we design.… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
When in doubt, it is better to do the less conservative thing and to err on the side of the more colorful,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
I'm Turkish-American; I was a freshman at Harvard in 1995 and 96. I did teach English in Hungary in the summer of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“These weird thoughts come into my head, and I don't even really want to think about it, but I can't let go… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
“The openness of such networked devices reflects our growing desire to construct writing in a way that breaks down the traditional distinctions… — Jay David Bolter Copy Share Image
I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
I was playing piano at three and started writing songs when I was six or seven, and I've been addicted since then. — Orianthi Copy Share Image
You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its… — George Will Copy Share Image
“This might sound a little nutty, but to write fiction is to live in an invented world with a set of imaginary… — April Lindner Copy Share Image
God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
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Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in,… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your… — Lucy Simon Copy Share Image
I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I… — Robin Thicke Copy Share Image
At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
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Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Let's agree then . . . if you're about to come to a conclusion, you'll head off in another direction. You might… — Avi Copy Share Image
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their… — Alan Jay Lerner Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write about comics and I have written little things here and there but I am not confident in… — Charles Forsman Copy Share Image
I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back? — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
