The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. — Leon Edel Copy Share Image
“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd. — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
'21 Jump Street' is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I guess when I first started writing music, I really had no idea if anyone was ever going to hear what I… — Tyler Joseph Copy Share Image
I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm… — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
“I feign knowledge of writing: that I know something about it, that I should have learned something after all these years, that… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
The lowest stress environment is the radio show. I am not on camera and I can let the music do the talking.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
People try to apply directly results from the cognitive neurosciences directly to classroom practice and I have to tell you I am… — John Medina Copy Share Image
The most important thing for me is that I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront… — Ken Saro-Wiwa Copy Share Image
“How, then, to proceed? My method is: I imagine a meter mounted in my forehead, with “P” on this side (“Positive”) and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
I can definitely write a book. Growing up, I really learned that. The stuff I was reading were urban books and I… — Rod Wave Copy Share Image
For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's… — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
“The shore whispers to the sea: “Write to me what your waves struggle to say.” The sea writes in foam again and… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story… — Linda Conrad Copy Share Image
There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In an average week I'll be testing recipes, doing a voice-over, filming and writing. I cram everything in Monday to Friday because… — Nadiya Hussain Copy Share Image
The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
To me one of the amazing technologies of writing is the way it can listen in on thoughts. I don't feel that… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“Male writers, especially male writers during the 1960s, somehow tricked people into thinking that they were demigods because they had an understanding… — Jennifer Wright Copy Share Image
“I struggle each day not to let the fear of the censor poison my writing. Where the censor rules, a dull sameness… — Harry Mazer Copy Share Image
Songs will always become a story in some way. I think it's my strongpoint as a writer musically. I don't shy away… — Mike Stud Copy Share Image
I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school… — Thomas Haden Church Copy Share Image
“We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Who was Hitler?’ I said. Tyrena smiled slightly. ‘An Old Earth politician who did some writing. Mein Kampf is still in print… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. — Barry Schuler Copy Share Image
The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
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