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When we hear a writer read from his or her work, we hear nuances we might have missed: the writer's ...
ANNA MONARDO Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD![]()
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL![]()
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether ...
ALICE MCDERMOTT![]()
I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We...
MARK HADDON![]()
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
RICHARD BACH We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the c...
GARY FRANK Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this...
EDAN LEPUCKI![]()
I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writ...
STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES I was asked to be on 'The Colbert Report' last year as Big Bird and Oscar. But when we got t...
CAROLL SPINNEY![]()
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
SAUL BELLOW![]()
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you ...
MICHAEL NUTTER I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's...
EDIE FALCO I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it ...
BRYAN COGMAN We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a ...
BARNEY ROSS![]()
My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were...
PAUL THEROUX![]()
He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know h...
JACK NICKLAUS I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
KAREN ROBARDS I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma...
TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th...
TRISHA LEAVER![]()
I remember when we did 'Shaun of the Dead,' and when we were trying to get it off the ground...
EDGAR WRIGHT I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' wr...
IRIS JOHANSEN![]()
When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And...
VERONICA ROTH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON![]()
You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will writ...
JIMMY BUFFETT If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS...![]()
I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to...
JOAN DIDION The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's alwa...
JERRY POURNELLE![]()
I lead a very conventional life. I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a sou...
JOAN DIDION![]()
We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Han...
JEFF DUNHAM Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know someth...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE![]()
We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then...
ANDY TAYLOR![]()
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you...
CYNTHIA OZICK I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally...
DINAW MENGESTU We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every f...
ALAN CHEUSE![]()
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of ...
JANET FITCH Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an in...
ANDREA BARRETT It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON What would you have if you didn't have a murder in a mystery? You'd have something for the l...
ALANE FERGUSON![]()
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, bu...
MEISTER ECKHART![]()
The music that I make is built on layers upon layers of musical ideas. I want to keep it fun and fre...
BIG BOI![]()
A lot of the data we collect is stuff that has to be analyzed on the ground. For instance, we can...
SCOTT KELLY A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don&...
HORTON FOOTE![]()
One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to din...
PAUL PRUDHOMME Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So s...
FISHER STEVENS We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO![]()
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover ...
EDNA FERBER![]()
My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a come...
HOWARD SCHULTZ I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of ...
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ![]()
The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or h...
TANA FRENCH![]()
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We'...
TAYLOR HACKFORD![]()
He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inc...
JEREMY IRONS When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that&...
RICHARD PHILLIPS![]()
As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it ...
CHARLIE PIERCE![]()
What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...
Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER![]()
I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
SAM SHEPARD![]()
I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't compl...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An ...
JOHN SAYLES A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have ...
TIM O'BRIEN![]()
When I read Katana's run in 'Birds of Prey,' I was curious about her restraint. She didn...
ANN NOCENTI![]()
There's something really powerful when I, for example, hear Bob Marley's 'Exodus' - ...
MATISYAHU One of my first questions when I interview prospective employees is, 'Do you know how big a shee...
CASEY NEISTAT![]()
We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with s...
STEVEN SPIELBERG When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.
ELLEN GALLAGHER Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO![]()
I didn't want to be a 'Fortune' writer who was constrained in any way.
CAROL LOOMIS![]()
My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those ...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY![]()
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn&...
TOM WOLFE One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, th...
JANE LINDSKOLD One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to w...
DAMON KNIGHT![]()
That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenti...
ANNE RICE![]()
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a boo...
DORIS LESSING Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I ...
DREE HEMINGWAY![]()
That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but w...
RINGO STARR But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it ...
NIGELLA LAWSON Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn o...
SAM CHILDERS I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. ...
CANDICE PATTON![]()
I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admi...
RACHEL CUSK My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, ei...
P. L. TRAVERS We are born in the world because we have to learn something through whatever we're born into. Al...
BETTY PARSONS![]()
Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a cr...
PAUL SIMON We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a ...
ABBI JACOBSON In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when t...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN![]()
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
PAUL SIMON I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good wr...
PATTON OSWALT If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
BARRY MANN![]()
When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larr...
ALLEN IVERSON I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled...
JIM MCKAY![]()
We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried...
LARRY KRAMER I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL![]()
Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?
ALEX TURNER
ANNA MONARDO Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether ...
ALICE MCDERMOTT
I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We... MARK HADDON
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. RICHARD BACH We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the c...
GARY FRANK Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this...
EDAN LEPUCKI
I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writ... STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES I was asked to be on 'The Colbert Report' last year as Big Bird and Oscar. But when we got t...
CAROLL SPINNEY
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. SAUL BELLOW
The words you can’t find, you borrow.We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you ...
MICHAEL NUTTER I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's...
EDIE FALCO I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it ...
BRYAN COGMAN We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a ...
BARNEY ROSS
My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were... PAUL THEROUX
He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know h... JACK NICKLAUS I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
KAREN ROBARDS I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma...
TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th...
TRISHA LEAVER
I remember when we did 'Shaun of the Dead,' and when we were trying to get it off the ground... EDGAR WRIGHT I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' wr...
IRIS JOHANSEN
When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And... VERONICA ROTH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON
You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will writ... JIMMY BUFFETT If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS...
I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to... JOAN DIDION The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's alwa...
JERRY POURNELLE
I lead a very conventional life. I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a sou... JOAN DIDION
We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Han... JEFF DUNHAM Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know someth...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE
We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then... ANDY TAYLOR
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you... CYNTHIA OZICK I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally...
DINAW MENGESTU We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every f...
ALAN CHEUSE
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of ... JANET FITCH Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an in...
ANDREA BARRETT It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON What would you have if you didn't have a murder in a mystery? You'd have something for the l...
ALANE FERGUSON
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, bu... MEISTER ECKHART
The music that I make is built on layers upon layers of musical ideas. I want to keep it fun and fre... BIG BOI
A lot of the data we collect is stuff that has to be analyzed on the ground. For instance, we can... SCOTT KELLY A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don&...
HORTON FOOTE
One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to din... PAUL PRUDHOMME Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So s...
FISHER STEVENS We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover ... EDNA FERBER
My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a come... HOWARD SCHULTZ I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of ...
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ
The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or h... TANA FRENCH
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We'...
TAYLOR HACKFORD
He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inc... JEREMY IRONS When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that&...
RICHARD PHILLIPS
As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it ... CHARLIE PIERCE
What will happen if we go to 0 day?...
Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER
I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer. SAM SHEPARD
I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't compl... RABIH ALAMEDDINE I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An ...
JOHN SAYLES A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have ...
TIM O'BRIEN
When I read Katana's run in 'Birds of Prey,' I was curious about her restraint. She didn... ANN NOCENTI
There's something really powerful when I, for example, hear Bob Marley's 'Exodus' - ... MATISYAHU One of my first questions when I interview prospective employees is, 'Do you know how big a shee...
CASEY NEISTAT
We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with s... STEVEN SPIELBERG When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.
ELLEN GALLAGHER Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO
I didn't want to be a 'Fortune' writer who was constrained in any way. CAROL LOOMIS
My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those ... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn&... TOM WOLFE One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, th...
JANE LINDSKOLD One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to w...
DAMON KNIGHT
That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenti... ANNE RICE
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a boo... DORIS LESSING Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I ...
DREE HEMINGWAY
That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but w... RINGO STARR But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it ...
NIGELLA LAWSON Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn o...
SAM CHILDERS I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. ...
CANDICE PATTON
I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admi... RACHEL CUSK My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, ei...
P. L. TRAVERS We are born in the world because we have to learn something through whatever we're born into. Al...
BETTY PARSONS
Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a cr... PAUL SIMON We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a ...
ABBI JACOBSON In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when t...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen. PAUL SIMON I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good wr...
PATTON OSWALT If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
BARRY MANN
When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larr... ALLEN IVERSON I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled...
JIM MCKAY
We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried... LARRY KRAMER I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL
Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it? ALEX TURNER
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not... 
The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius. 
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every real... 
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery. 
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onw... 
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details ... 
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. 
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reaso... 
The truly terrible thing about this life, was not knowing what you want, but only able to recognize ... 
The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to pres... 
First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying t... 