I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full… — Virgil Suarez Copy Share Image
I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed. — Samantha Mathis Copy Share Image
I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City… — Barry Corbin Copy Share Image
By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
One of the reasons so many nonfiction books are so boring is because what they've done, very diligently, is fulfill the terms… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I… — Gideon Haigh Copy Share Image
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday... I look back on my life as a… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect. — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
I like art that trusts its audience, that's written for readers who like to work hard. I like art that knows its… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us.… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
There's something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image