Learning to exist in a world quite different from that which formed you is the condition, these days, of pursuing research you… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I began to write more songs when I had more time, especially when we began to stop touring. Having Indian things so… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
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There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to… — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
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There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
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Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The children's writer not only makes a satisfactory connection between [the writer's] present maturity and his past childhood, he also does the… — Philippa Pearce Copy Share Image
“But even the longest dedication is too short and too commonplace to honor a friendship so uncommon. When I try to define… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
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I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
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I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
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Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for… — Jesse Stuart Copy Share Image
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I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
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