The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable. — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
David Frankfurter's valuable, well-written study takes us to the far reaches of demonology. In documenting the harm done by labeling others evil,… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down… — Louis Riel Copy Share Image
One of the things I can do is to try to put myself in different kinds of movies and that kind of… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been… — George Tenet Copy Share Image
Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I think there's great value to the Associated Press and to Reuters, but if you wanted to generate original content, maybe written… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
“It was a simple account of an incident from his childhood. At the time I recall that I wondered why he had… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
There hasn't been a lot written about it in the Western media. But in the Arab world, and Western Asia as a… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have… — Ron Wyden 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
You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong… — Ian Hart Copy Share Image
I've written about Powers Hapgood. He was a Harvard graduate, son of a wealthy family who owned a cannery out there. After… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college…The only way to avoid age discrimination in… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational… — James Frey Copy Share Image
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
They are all up — the innumerable stars— And hold their place in heaven. ... There they stand, Shining in order, like… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
It will greatly help you to understand scripture if you note - no only what is spoken and written, but of whom… — Myles Coverdale Copy Share Image
Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I had not been very kind to J. Edgar Hoover. And the field agent had written on - it was sent directly… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
The secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare — or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great,… — Paul Scofield Copy Share Image
I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Only the Strong is a lushly atmospheric and passionately written piece of work, bursting with colorful characters that shine on every page. — Bernice L. McFadden Copy Share Image
Witches is being sold as an account of the Belvoir scandals, but in truth, Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully… — Bella Bathurst Copy Share Image