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Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold. — James Lafferty Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In the case of my second film The Fish Child (El Niño Pez), I had written the novel about 5 years before… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
There have been times I thought that when I got a certain point in the story, a certain character was going to… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I am very glad, Anderson, that secretary Clinton discovered religion on this issue but it's a little bit too late. Secretary Clinton… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side. — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty. You don't… — Shirley Manson 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
I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very… — John Warnock Copy Share Image
I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a… — Jared Kushner Copy Share Image
We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
I think the best songs that come to me are ones that you sort of listen for. The ones - when I… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
Every new routine I have ever written and performed probably occurred extemporaneously. Then after you have fleshed it out and tried it… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
