“The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it -… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave… — Mark Chesnutt Copy Share Image
Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on Angela's Ashes but as a child I had written to so many… — Kerry Condon Copy Share Image
I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former… — Krista Allen Copy Share Image
I've written a book that hopefully will give people a sense of what [presidency] was like. I hope my friends read it… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you,… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Some leaders expect the team to read their minds on priorities, so they never provide the written and verbal guidance that we… — Martin Zwilling Copy Share Image
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos.… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Traditionally, women didn't have much a role in Buddhism. The books were all written by monks, for other monks. So the general… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Those of you who have been there Haiti know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Good writing, in my opinion, is writing that looks really easy, so easy that a person who has never written more than… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the… — David Abram Copy Share Image
When liberal celebs stammer out a litany of shopworn bleats about the administration's attempt to turn America into a theocratic prison state,… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. In addition,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't... well,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn’t grow up wanting… — Tom Tomorrow Copy Share Image
I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
It's been a while since I've written a novel aimed at the adult market, but I never sit down and say to… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
My progressive ideals are screaming in [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] book; what I believe. There is no muddying-up because of… — Angela Alioto Copy Share Image
I keep boxes filled with recuerdos - little memories that are in the form of pictures and events that I've written down.… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was… — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
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