“I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.” WorldWantWritingYearsBookDifferentWrittenSubtleAdmiring Book:Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader Source: Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader
“Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.” PeopleGivingDifferentWould BeLiteratureInterestingWrittenChildhoodWindowMotherhoodDifferent PeoplesReally Interesting Author:Natalie Merchant
“But once an original book has been written - and no more than one or two appear in a century - men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.” MenShouldWritingHas BeensTwoBookDifferentUseAbleCoursesLanguageWrittenCenturyLettersOriginalsTitlesThemeCopiesApesImitatorUse Of Language Book:Planet of the Apes Source: Planet of the Apes
“Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.” WayWritingKindHas BeensBookDifferentLiteratureProcessWrittenHavensDifferent Ways Author:Irvine Welsh
“I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.” PeopleMindDifferentHardPlayJoySongWishMillionsWrittenKeysGlad Author:Chuck Mangione
“The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.” WritingDifferentWrittenBiographiesWendy Author:Julie Salamon
“Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.” IfsThinkingWritingLooksBookDifferentNextMorningWrittenWriting A Book Author:Adam Clymer
“Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.” WritingWellsDifferentFilmThreeCoursesProcessWrittenShootingThree TimesEdits Author:Stephen Daldry
“Everybody works the same, but the preparation very often may be different. You cannot work differently. You have to say the words that were written on the page, and you have to make your marks. That's the work.” MayDifferentWrittenPagesMarkPreparation Author:Morgan Freeman
“It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.” IfsKnowsWayBookDifferentWholeCharacterActorsEasyViewsWrittenEasierSceneDrawsLet MePreparedScriptsWarmPoint Of ViewBrilliantEnjoyedAccentsLet Me GoNever Let Me Go Author:Carey Mulligan
“A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences.” YearsHumansMayHas BeensTwoBookDifferentSeemsLyingLinesHuman BeingsWrittenThousandConsequenceLibraryForgottenCornersFiftyReachingThousand YearsAbyssMe AloneDormant Author:Marguerite Yourcenar
“And the law of God is written in every heart, and it is there that he manifests himself; And in infinite love, according to our necessities, states, conditions. And as we are all various and different from one another, more or less, so the law by the immediate operation of divine grace in the soul, is suited to every individual according to his condition.” HeartDifferentSoulStatesLawIndividualGraceWrittenConditionsDivineInfiniteVariousOperationsDivine GraceInfinite Love Author:Elias Hicks
“I truly believe the book of philosophy to be that which stands perpetually open before our eyes, though since it is written in characters different from those of our alphabet it cannot be read by everyone.” ThinkingBelieveBookDifferentPhilosophyCharacterEyeWrittenAlphabet Author:Galileo Galilei
“How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.” ThinkingWayWantShouldLooksKindTwoBookIdeasDifferentHardUseProblemOpinionWonderfulWrittenMagicFiguresHigherMachinesIntelligentMethodSolveDevicesArtificial IntelligenceDifferent KindsBulletsAdministrativeIntelligent Machines Author:Marvin Minsky
“You've got to remember, the older you get the slower you get. I've seen a lot of players get old ... if I can have a good season in 1972 and come back with another good one, well, that's different. I might not quit. But two bad ones back to back and staying home would be written on the wall.” IfsWellsI CanTwoDifferentHomeMightWould BeRememberPlayerWrittenWallSeasonsQuittingStaying Author:Hank Aaron
“I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with what gives you pleasure, a joyous expression of imagination. I emphasize joyous because too much is written about fashion that takes the pleasure away - clothes that make you look thinner or clothes that make you look younger or, horrors, clothes that make other people envy you or that - double horrors - are "age appropriate".” PeopleThinkingGivingLooksDifferentAgeImaginationPleasureRolesToo MuchWrittenFashionStyleExpressionHorrorClothesEnvyAppropriateJoyous Author:Elizabeth Heyert
“A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.” MenWellsKindLittlesDifferentStoriesUseBodyLife IsFatherWaterWhitePoorRichCuttingWrittenDogMarkBonesFleshHipsRanNecksReliefReachingPensVillageChestsScarBlankRopePillowWhipsSpineCottonRich ManPoor ManCollarsPremiumButtocks Author:Aravind Adiga
“Could it be argued that if the Chinese revolution seems to be a response to the needs of rural society, whereas the Russian is an urbanized phenomenon, this difference corresponds to that which exists between the users of two different forms of written communication, the one archaic, the other alphabetic?” IfsNeedsTwoDifferentSeemsFormDifferencesWrittenCommunicationRevolutionResponseChinesePhenomenonUsersChinese Revolution Author:Eric A. Havelock
“Many books condemn 'secular' culture, just as many books advocate (consciously or unconsciously) accommodating ourselves to culture. Brett has written something much different: a biblically informed and culturally savvy approach to consuming culture in a God-honoring, community-building, and mission-advancing way.” WayBookDifferentCultureCommunityWrittenBuildingApproachMissionsSecularConsumingAdvancingSavvyCommunity Building Author:Mike Erre
“The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression.” DifferentUniverseLevelsWrittenExpressionHigherHigher LevelSamadhiTrue Wisdom Author:Frederick Lenz
“The coverage [of crimes] is different. It's less angry when white [athletes] are involved, less accusatory, less judgemental. I see that in the pieces that are written and reported. At times it bothers me to the point that I just stop reading...just stop.” DifferentReadingWhitePiecesWrittenCrimeInvolvedAngryAthleteBotherCoverageJudgemental Author:Michael Wilbon
“Its different being a director. I suppose, especially if its a story youve written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways its a lot easier than acting because youre orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes youre trying to second-guess what people want.” PeopleIfsWayWantFeelsTryingDifferentSometimesStoriesActorsActingPiecesWrittenEasierDirectorsCompelled Author:Paddy Considine
“Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.” HumansMadeBookDifferentHandsAgeTakenWrittenMagicBibleCriticismHistoricalMade ItInvestigationLiterary CriticismCompositesDifferent AgesMany Hands Author:Bill Vaughan
“I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music... Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what.” IfsKnowsWritingIdeasDifferentWholeCharacterSongWrittenMinesPopsDifferent ThingsUnusualDefectsPop MusicShyness Author:Randy Newman
“I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better.” KnowsDifferentSometimesTurnsWritten Author:Randy Newman
“When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone.” WayI CanDifferentSoulSongDarkWrittenStonesToneSoul SearchingFlipSourSinisterStone Sour Author:Corey Taylor
“I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldnt be the bad guy in the joke; he couldnt upset people, really.” PeopleDifferentPastGuyVoiceWrittenJokesPrioritiesUpsetBad GuysJimmyDifferent Voices Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.” WayMindHumansDifferentHuman BeingsWrittenRelateProcessingWritten WordSpoken Word Author:Neil Gaiman
“A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts. But really a novel goes as dreams go in sleeping at night and some dreams are like anything and some dreams are like something and some dreams change and some dreams are quiet and some dreams are not. And some dreams are just what any one would do only a little different always just a little different and that is what a novel is.” LittlesDifferentDreamNightSleepNovelWrittenQuietWakingLike SomethingSleeping At Night Book:How Writing Is Written Source: How Writing Is Written
“Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow.” PeopleDifferentEarthWrittenWindBlowQuartersFixingUntrue Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“One of the things I can do is to try to put myself in different kinds of movies and that kind of subtly changes my work. By the time my obituary is written, I want there to be a great western and a great comedy.” WantTryingKindI CanDifferentCan DoComedyWrittenWesternDifferent KindsObituaryGreat Comedy Author:Ethan Hawke
“No matter how many scores I've written, the next project will hopefully be completely different. As hard as it is, I'm always trying to stay fresh, not repeat myself, and come up with original musical ideas and ways of scoring.” WayTryingIdeasDifferentMatterHardNextWrittenProjectsOriginalsMusicalCome UpHopefullyRepeatsScoreAlways Trying Author:John Keltonic
“I really can't answer that off the top of my head, my favorite movies. Each one individually was wonderfully made, wonderfully directed, wonderfully written, wonderfully acted, and each one was entirely different.I like romantic movies. I sort of go for the older movies.” MadeDifferentAnswersWrittenMy Favorite Author:Debbie Reynolds
“If you are doing a piece about somebody, even if you admire them tremendously and express that in the piece, express that admiration, if they're not used to being written about, if they're civilians, [...] they're not used to seeing themselves through other people's eyes. So you will always see them from a slightly different angle than they see themselves, and they feel a little betrayed by that.” PeopleIfsFeelsLittlesDifferentEyeUsedPiecesWrittenSeeingAdmireAdmirationAngleBetrayedCiviliansDifferent Angles Author:Joan Didion
“If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?” IfsShouldHas BeensDifferentMy OwnPleasureWrittenGroupsReaderShould HaveShould Have Been Author:James Arthur
“You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different. The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you - you've killed them in a way. Is it destiny? Was it written somewhere that this was to be your life? Is it useful that you are here? Or is it simply by chance?” IfsWayMeanChildrenMadeDifferentMomentsFactsWould BeLife IsParentBornChanceDestinyWrittenBecause Of You Author:Christian Boltanski
“I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories from a different perspective. It's always helped me realize the grass isn't always greener and how I need to live more in the moment. My songwriting is a documentation of whatever's happening in my life at that point in time.” WayNeedsLooksDifferentMomentsUseFormSongRealizingMemoriesWrittenPerspectiveHappeningsObstaclesGrassTherapySongwritingDifferent PerspectiveGreenerDocumentation Author:Chuck Ragan
“I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.” DifferentEnvironmentWrittenPeriodsBotherOddUnfairAdaptationThrustBack WhenUntrueUnkindTorontoLaid BackDifferent Environments Author:Mike Myers
“I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.” ThinkingWritingTryingBookDifferentNovelWritten Author:James Frey
“I honestly never sat down and said "OK, here's my style," because my whole thing was knowing everyone's style. Everything I've ever written has bits and pieces of everything I've ever heard. Any rapper that tells you different is a liar.” SaidDifferentWholeBitsKnowingPiecesWrittenHeardStyleDown AndHonestlySatLiarsRapperBits And Pieces Author:Bun B
“Well, the first thing I do is I try to listen to whatever rapping is already on the track. I listen for cadence and melody to see how the track's already been written, and to make sure that whatever flow or flows I decide to run with, or patterns or melodies that I decide to put into the song, that they're not already in there. Then I try to see if there's a different part of the subject matter that I can talk about.” IfsTryingFirstsWellsI CanDifferentMatterRunningSongWrittenSubjectsFlowPatternsTrackRapMelodySubject MatterCadence Author:Bun B
“It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything. If I could, I'd completely rewrite Fargo Rock City, and every sentence would be just slightly different. In all likelihood, most of them wouldn't be any better. Some of them would just be changed back to whatever form they used to be, before I second-guessed myself the first time.” IfsFirstsBookDifferentWould BePastFormUsedReadingCitiesWrittenCrazyRocksChangedFirst TimeSentencesUsed To BeIf I CouldLikelihoodDrive Me CrazyFargo Author:Chuck Klosterman
“There are different levels of scripting that we all use; I think I'm the most improvised of the three, and probably Andrew's the most written. But all of that is in pursuit of similar things, and I think that we kind of recognize that in each other.” ThinkingKindDifferentUseThreeLevelsWrittenPursuitAndrewDifferent Levels Author:Joe Swanberg
“It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.” WayDifferentSeemsWrittenStyleSingingMusicalPopsTheatreArguingDifferent StylesMusical Theatre Author:Julian Ovenden
“I do believe young people should be obligated to try different types of music - that is what education is. But once you're in a situation as an adult, it doesn't benefit anybody - at least in my experience - to force music on people that they don't like or do not have an interest in - whether it's three-hundred years old or newly written.” PeopleShouldTryingYearsBelieveDifferentYoungThreeForceInterestSituationWrittenTypeBenefitsHundredAdultsDifferent Types Of Music Author:Michael Hersch
“Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your teacher taught you to do in school.” IdeasDifferentSchoolLinesTeacherWrittenTaughtPhrasesPoetry Is Author:Margaret Atwood
“You can always find ways to make it different, as long as it's a really well-written script and well-written character.” WayWellsLongDifferentCharacterWrittenScriptsWell Written Author:Georgina Haig
“If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must take an obsessive pride in the smallest details of your craft. And you must be willing to defend what you've written against the various middlemen - editors, agents and publishers - whose sights may be different from yours, whose standards not so high.” IfsWantWritingMayDifferentWrittenWillingPrideStandardsSightDetailsVariousCraftsAgentsEditorsSmallestPublishersObsessiveMiddlemen Author:William Zinsser
“I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22 books, and they are all very different. I have tried all kinds of genres.” ShouldWritingKindBookDifferentWrittenStyleParticularConsciousAll KindsGenreDevicesLiterary Devices Author:Isabel Allende
“If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically different. They would have placed the prince in halls and palaces and had him walking among the great. They would have had him surrounded by the important and significant of the time. Potentates and kings would have been His companions. But how sweetly common was the real God-man; though He had inhabited all eternity, He had come down and was subject to the rising and the setting of the sun.” IfsMenHas BeensImportantDifferentRealStoriesCommonSunWrittenSubjectsKingsWalkingEternityDown AndSignificantSettingSettingsRisingCompanionHallsPalacesEugene O Neill Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer