Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large… — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it. — John Braine Copy Share Image
It is not quite true to say that I am not an advocate of writing in African languages. What I think is,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
It's great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the… — John Waters Copy Share Image
When I just write something, it's usually because I love it, I love the material, but I feel like I really need… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
We offer a better way for dealing with persistent poverty in this country. A way that shows poor Americans the world beyond… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
With every episodic, there's a learning curve where writers try to find the voice of the characters by way of the actors.… — Sasha Roiz Copy Share Image
I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
I once asked Barbara Stanwyck the secret of acting. She said: 'Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've… — Fred MacMurray Copy Share Image
“I see the whole thing popping and parenthesizing in every direction, the story of that house and that kitchen.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It's very hard to deal with true subject matter, especially when you're writing about such weighty issues. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck's journals while he was writing 'East of Eden,' which was so cool. — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I'm probably, if I might, if I stray I might write, go into screenplay or do something in film. Something like that… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“But this lump does not absolve me, because I got it through heedlessness, not though courage. I run my tongue over my… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. ‘They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I thought you'd be arguing [in the law school], and then I realized you have to read all these cases, and it's… — Rich Fulcher Copy Share Image
As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
My texts are written like palimpsests. They are written over and over again, until I feel that a kind of metaphysical meaning… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it… — Cy Coleman Copy Share Image
I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will… — Antony Johnston Copy Share Image
I've always defined myself as a writer, I've never decided what it was I was gonna write. [...] I always fancied myself… — Rob Corddry Copy Share Image
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