I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should… — Sherwood Schwartz Copy Share Image
I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and… — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff… — Bernard Fanning Copy Share Image
For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I love to write and I love the natural world. Everything I've written about I've found exciting and it has never left… — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and… — Alex Chilton Copy Share Image
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I should attempt to write a love song, I have written lots of poetry about love so I could turn those into… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
Here is book called I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, written by a couple of Christian apologists, which is… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
Music has always been important to me. Rhythm, in particular, features in most of the things I do. I stumbled recently upon… — James Nares Copy Share Image
So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before… — Alan Price Copy Share Image
I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak -… — Raina Telgemeier Copy Share Image
I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the… — Milo Aukerman Copy Share Image
There have always been people who have written me off. They're not going away. I use that to motivate me. I'm driven… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy. — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
Grace Kelly was written after these musicians were trying to mold me into what I should be. I was really angry and… — Mika Copy Share Image
I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
President [John F.] Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs, said to Turner Catledge of The New York Times: I wish you had… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't… — William Raspberry Copy Share Image