Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back… — Bebe Rexha Copy Share Image
My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs.… — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I like films that probe emotional questions and inspire you to get creative and get writing, get draping, painting, cooking, whatever that… — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. Writers have no one to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Song writing is about the male-female relationship. Yes, there are songs of, of brotherhood and politics but very rarely do we write… — Jeff Barry Copy Share Image
“God does not demand that every man attain to what is theoretically highest and best. It is better to be a good… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If anything, my problem is, I'm not a genius, it's just that I can write songs very quick. I have a lot… — Gary Louris Copy Share Image
When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Im a PAPER, u cn write ur felings, scrible ur angr, use me 2 absorb tears. Dont thrw me after use bt… — Butterfly_Kisses Copy Share Image
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Ball has got a daughter who is a writer. I asked her how her daughter qualified to be one. Mrs. Ball… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I like to write at my cabin up north in Michigan, and I find there are a million other things to do… — Uncle Kracker Copy Share Image
I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into… — Mark Linkous Copy Share Image
There will be birds and if they write your name in the sky then you can get on the buses and if… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong: I love the great times I had with Static-X, but sometimes the writing/recording process was frustrating for me. — Wayne Static Copy Share Image
If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don't, they won't. There's not… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
“He has discovered the truths that keep writers chained to their desks: the primacy of the inner life and the sheer exhilaration… — Barbara Klein Moss Copy Share Image
“Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.” — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life… — Charles Beaumont Copy Share Image
I've become a writer, an actor, producing films, and having a TV show. I'm pretty successful and proud of it. — Charlie Murphy Copy Share Image
I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain… — Erle Stanley Gardner Copy Share Image
“One alphabet at a time, you can write an encyclopaedia. One word at a time, you can publish an entire library.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific. — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you can't be a pencil to write anyone's happiness, then at least try to be a nice eraser to erase someone's… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you. — Jonathan Kent Copy Share Image