Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Well, the first thing I do is I try to listen to whatever rapping is already on the track. I listen for… — Bun B Copy Share Image
...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The Christians and the Jews do not believe that the Bible is the verbatim words of God. In fact it is clear… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
I'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
From my personal experience I can conclude that many dreams are clearly written but there are some in which one meets distortions… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this goddamn world upside down to do… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
From my experience, the only thing you can do is take what's written on the page and try, through your own curiosity… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.” — Ben Johnson Copy Share Image
It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it. — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That the things that have impacted me most are not news articles written by older people that I would have no relation… — Rowan Blanchard Copy Share Image
I'd always written rhymes but I was scared to share them. They stayed on paper or in my head, until I started… — Doc Brown Copy Share Image