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“[T]he reason why Shakespeare and Pushkin were great writers was because from the time when they were boys they stood like policemen… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
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My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important. — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
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We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I spent almost two years working on this book ['March'] before we ever had a publisher, before we ever had a title.… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
“In a world of weeds, she was a wildflower. In a world of prose, her voice was poetry, In a world of… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
I think it's good to have a balance. Everything I write about, it's not something I necessarily might have went through, there's… — Leon Bridges Copy Share Image
Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it.… — Rene Balcer Copy Share Image
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I'm not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
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You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing… — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
“Teachers need to sit with their journal and write in the voice of that teenager. Write and remember. That’s who we teach!” — Penny Kittle Copy Share Image
As I was writing 'Insidious 3' I started to fall in love with the characters and the story. I became very possessive… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It's a joy for me, either… — Dominique Dawes Copy Share Image
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