What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I have never been in an ongoing series before and after series two I realized the writer has absolute control of your… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
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Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I… — Tananarive Due Copy Share Image
The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
When they dumped all these people out of the insane asylums they didn't all go sleep in the street. Some of them… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
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What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
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Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy… — Tom Kenny Copy Share Image
I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
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I'd never really done comedy before 'Community,' so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors,… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of… — Topher Grace Copy Share Image
Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I am not afraid to admit, though slightly ashamed that I Google myself and I see people writing things about me and… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course -… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in. — Judith Kelman Copy Share Image
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
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In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
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Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that… — Avi Copy Share Image
The press is writing parallel narrative about my life, especially my married life and nothing about my work. That's media for you. — Ranvir Shorey Copy Share Image
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