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
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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
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
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
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
I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
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'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
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I see the emphasis on a lot of ideas and I know that's directed at me. [Megan Chance] come up with an… — Megan Chance 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
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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
I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper.… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm… — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
I'm sorry for the randomness of what I wrote, Mr. Oswald. There's been a lot to absorb.' Without looking up, he says,… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
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About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
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God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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