History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media. — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The poetry I love is written with someone's voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone's voice.… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Banging techno grooves from the one and only Ben Sims. Around the time of this was written he had that tribal/funky techno… — Trentemøller Copy Share Image
I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to… — Michael Isikoff Copy Share Image
I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to… — George Murray Copy Share Image
I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays.… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12. — Mick Garris Copy Share Image
These are the moments. These are the moments where you realize love is everywhere if you look closely. When you realize happiness… — Camila Cabello Copy Share Image
Albom with Trent Willmon is the first project that I haven't had to scrap money together for. The is the first time… — Curtis Grimes Copy Share Image
I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
If you just read Joseph Campbell, who has written amazing books on mythology and religion, they all do come together at some… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it. — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
I have a repertoire of songs that I'm proud of, that I've written for my own band. When I do a cover,… — Hugh Dillon Copy Share Image
No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Mr. In-Between' very quickly when I was about 23. I wrote the penultimate chapter, then realised I'd done something which… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this;… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I've written short stories from male perspectives before, and I've never had a problem with it as long as I've understood the… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
We have written a draft of the script in every calendar year since [2010]. Quite honestly. Our Deadpool file is... full, to capacity. — Paul Wernick Copy Share Image
I feel pretty used by the music industry, in that my contracts are written in such a way that I don't get… — Jamey Johnson Copy Share Image
In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They… — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment. — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image