I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and… — Mari Evans Copy Share Image
As Elder George F. Richards, President of the Council of the Twelve, said in a conference address in April 1947, 'when we… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
I have a few things that I have written over the years that haven't been made, but I sort of feel like… — Steven Zaillian Copy Share Image
I've always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For every 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,'… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
It is not quite true that there are no good letters written in America: among my own circle of correspondents there, there… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The way 'The Icarus Girl' came about was by me just basically bragging it with a literary agent and telling him I'd… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone. — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
People write me letters and say I should answer them. But I don't like to answer letters. I don't write letters. I've… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I've always written towards movies that take place across two worlds. Most of the movies that I've worked on take place in… — John August 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
I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad,… — Julian Ovenden Copy Share Image
Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them… — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through… — David McCord Copy Share Image
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
When you choose a language, youre also choosing a community. The programmers youll be able to hire to work on a Java… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Copy is not written. If anyone tells you ‘you write copy’, sneer at them. Copy is not written. Copy is assembled. You… — Eugene Schwartz Copy Share Image
I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places. — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
In publishing The First Man I said to myself, 'this is going to be awful,' but awful from the point of view… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza,… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic. — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully… — Victor Garber Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get extremely disturbed with the things that are written. But you can't do anything about it. As a celebrity, you… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
I think grief is a huge subject; it's one of the things that everybody is going to confront in one way or… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image