If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I feel like part of the inequality is that there are few great roles written for older women, and I think part… — Erin Davie Copy Share Image
Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't. — John Legend Copy Share Image
You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Of course I had written a film about Elizabeth I, and I loved the Tudor period, and I think at the time… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better. — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches. — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary. — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper. — 1st Baron Evershed Raymond Evershed Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the greatest sin in the church of Jesus Christ in this generation is ignorance of the Word of God.… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
'Tom Sawyer' could have been written eight months ago, with the kind of response it still gets. — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
I have very rarely written autobiographical stuff. "Greasy Lake" and some other works have some autobiographical elements, as does "Birnam Wood," the… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that,… — Christo Copy Share Image
I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter. — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished.… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing,… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of novels for teens and tweens ... but I'd never really tackled the North Carolina side of me.… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
I think a lot of things are written from experience, but then you become a writer and talk about other people's experience… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Face your fears, endure its pain and they will be re-written in the form of pride and dreams. — Greg Plitt Copy Share Image
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