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I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies. — Obie Trice Copy Share Image
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I feel very lucky to be part of this amazing show [Exorcist] with such an amazing cast of actors, with a really… — Alfonso Herrera Copy Share Image
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We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
The question of identity has always been a murky issue in my own life and my writing bounces that right back. My… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I looked at the world of books and just went, Oh my gosh, if I'm writing novels, I'm on the same shelves… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. And the great satirists, like Swift and Dickens, tend to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Before I became a full-time writer, I worked in tech support in those giant cubicle farms you see. I was surrounded by… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
While I'm doing [writing], I don't feel it.I don't think that's a failing. I think it's just a feature. Like, a feature… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
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We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous. — Ted Andrews Copy Share Image
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I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes… — Connie Britton Copy Share Image
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