A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said,… — Theodor Haecker Copy Share Image
I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note! — Bob Monkhouse Copy Share Image
I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
A star is extinguished, another will begin to shine - thus it is written in the Book of Nature — Guido von List Copy Share Image
I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A dependent clause (a sentence fragment set off by commas, dontcha know) helps you explore your story by moving you deeper into… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them.… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
I improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I fear that I will do something to bring harm to those I love," Froi said. "So I follow their rules to… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
All 'Hamlets' are different, and it's the most overwritten play ever written. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life.… — Ann Wilson Copy Share Image
Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
It's much more important to write than to be written about. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
In my eyes Marlantes has become the pre-eminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I love the songs we've written together [with Ivo Moring] and believe that Rock music is coming back with a vengeance. There… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
My worlds are completely different. Painting is a peaceful world, and it's a different vibe than having a great match. You are… — Jeff Hardy Copy Share Image
There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
When, after having read a work, loftier thoughts arise in your mind and noble and heartfelt feelings animate you, do not look… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it,… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her,… — Catherine Camus 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
I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I think some of the best songs are written in love and then out of love. That's the best time to put… — Tyler James Williams Copy Share Image
People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When you people have a set up joke and the joke is set up straight and the words are just well written,… — Will Gluck Copy Share Image