Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Warm Bodies' ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written. — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also… — Robby Benson Copy Share Image
Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books. — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
[Silvio] Gesell's chiefwork is written in cool and scientific terms, although it is run through by a more passionate and charged devotion… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very… — Burt Ward Copy Share Image
Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest.… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools. — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
I've always had a fondness for language... English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and… — Joel Plaskett Copy Share Image
The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right… — Bernard Nathanson Copy Share Image
Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally,… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer. — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America so granted, it is part of our heritage and it… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
I love words. They're fun. I don't think any word can just be filler. There's no room for it. It's like a… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
My introduction to Woody Allen and to Ethan Coen was at the same time. On Broadway, I starred in a play called… — Max Casella Copy Share Image
I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I've been waiting for someone to sign the permission slip for me to write about sex. In the meantime, I've written about… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
From Ennio [Morricone] I ask for themes that clothe my characters easily. He's never read a script of mine to compose the… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image