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
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just… — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each… — T. Coleman Andrews Copy Share Image
What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings? — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
I received rejection letters for ten years (one on a napkin, written in crayon.) I had all my rejection notices stored in… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience. — Vestal McIntyre Copy Share Image
History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered… — Tim Meadows Copy Share Image
I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount… — Kem Nunn Copy Share Image
A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
I've also never written about home in this way before. I guess a lot of it is subconscious and I am intuitively… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
The Labor Party has always - always been praised as leaders. In fact, there's probably more books written about ALP leaders and… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming… — Arthur Gordon Webster Copy Share Image
What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is very annoying - things have been written by people who didn't know me at all or Princess Diana. They were… — Hasnat Khan Copy Share Image
