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I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left. Vivienne Westwood

Environmental People Problem Will Thought Writes Had Always How Left End James Urgent Century Realized Billion

I really like the short stories that Melissa Bank writes. I think she's sort of channeling the female version of J.D. Salinger in more recent days. Whit Stillman

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From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work. I usually look witheringly at them and snarl, 'What do you think?' I mean, how do you imagine anyone writes a quarter of a million words a year for publication? Will Self

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. William Rose Benet

Life Honey Poetry Writes Poisoned Lips Who

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? Wislawa Szymborska

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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics. Yehuda Amichai

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If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her. Yoko Ono

Woman Situation Assumes Everyone About Writes Domestic Automatically Her

The ambition of 'Ten Thousand Saints,' Eleanor Henderson's debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. In nearly 400 pages, Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every scene, every perspective, every fleeting impression, every impulse and desire and bit of emotional detritus. Stacey D'Erasmo

Beautiful Perspective Lost Ambition Hell Group Every Back Once Bit Out Thousand About Ten Scene Emotional Writes She Does Souls Saints Impression Debut Impulse Hold Fleeting Pages Moment Novel Nearly Desire

Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that. John Cooper Clarke

Hero About Casts Writes Inevitably Autobiography Anyone Themselves Mileage Who

And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting. Uma Thurman

Care About Someone Writes Read Sure Blogs Lot Interesting

In America, we divide federal power between the legislative, executive and judicial branches so that no one holds too much power. This is sixth-grade civics: Congress writes the laws; the president executes the laws; and the courts apply those laws fairly and dispassionately to cases. Ben Sasse

Too Much Power Congress Too President Those Cases Laws Divide Federal Writes No-One Between Executive Fairly Judicial Courts Branches America Legislative Holds Much Apply

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel. Salman Rushdie

Character You Men Before Unlike Mad Mad Men Entire Writes Matthew Shooting Story Then Novel Series Start

All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see film work as a continuation of writing for theatre. It is more of an interruption of the writing process. Tom Stoppard

That little Miley Cyrus... she's like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she's Hannah Montana, but what people don't realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she's 40 years old! Dolly Parton

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels. Umberto Eco

Myself Think I Think Weekend Writes Who Serious Novels Professor

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. Flannery O'Connor

Live Able About Writer Writes He Make Cannot Choose

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