Brain Quote by Bradley Whitford

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone…

— Ernest Hemingway

I love to read autobiographies. [What is your favorite autobiography?] the autobiography of Coach John Wooden. Everybody has a struggle so it's about seeing…

— Meb Keflezighi

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly

I wish I wrote 'Paper Planes' by M.I.A.

— Alice Merton

Someday I would love to write about Vincent van Gogh - his paintings and letters continue to inspire me very much. But it remains…

— Henri Nouwen

Anything that Osgood Perkins writes, you can sign me up!

— Lucy Boynton

I started with "Pickman's Model," because it was about Boston. I mean, what I loved about [H. P. Lovecraft], at first is his sense…

— Paul Laffoley

[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

— Anthony Bourdain

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

— Nic Pizzolatto

I was just infused with ideas and I would dream about it and wake up and go, "Oh, I have another idea about Walter…

— Bryan Cranston

“A great poet gives words wings to fly in the reader's perceptual sky.”

— Debasish Mridha

“The West Wing,”

— George W. Bush