10 Great Writers, 10 Great Quotes About Writing
A.J. Liebling on New York City’s Neutral Corner Cocktail Lounge
Aaron Swartz on Controlling the Means of Information in the Digital Age
Abraham Lincoln on The Importance of Following Your Passion
Alan Greenspan on Eliminating Too Big to Fail
Alex Honnold on Scaling the Wall
Alfred Hitchcock on The Essential Difference Between Mystery and Suspense
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Financial Risk and Recovery
Barack Obama on The Affordable Care Act
Bill Clinton on Future Preference
Bill Clinton on The Four Elements That Determine Every Presidency
Bob Dylan on Teenage Rebellion
Bob Dylan on The Critical Aspect of Exuding Confidence
Brendan Behan on Human Kindness
Bret Easton Ellis on Being a ‘Serious’ Novelist
Bruce Lee on Unnatural Naturalness
Bruce Springsteen on Barack Obama
Charles Bukowski on The Saving Grace of Writing
Charles Dickens on Daily Living in a Small, Blue-Collar Town
Charlie Kaufman on The Importance of Being Yourself
Charlie LeDuff on The Bankruptcy of Detroit
Chief Sitting Bull on The One Percent
Christopher McDougall on Distance-Running
Christopher Nolan on Superheroes Vs. Batman
Cory Booker on Embracing Your Frustration
Cus D’Amato on Maintaining a Prevailing Sense of Calm
Dan Wakefield on Kurt Vonnegut
Daniel Kitson on Wide-Screen Metaphors
Dave Eggers on Working In The Dead of Night
David Chase’s Advice for Aspiring Screenwriters
David Foster Wallace on The Nature of The Fun
David Gunn on Curbing Subway Graffiti in New York City
David Lynch on The Unified Field
David Shenk on The Infinite Possibilities of Chess
David Simon on Marxism Vs. Capitalism
David Simon on The Two Great Currencies of Television
Deb Olin Unferth on Loneliness
Derek Cianfrance on Ideas vs. Execution
Don DeLillo on Office Politics
Ernest Hemingway on Holding Out For Spring
F. Scott Fitzgerald on The Lost City
Fran Lebowitz on Becoming a Real Writer
Francis Ford Coppola’s Advice to Young Filmmakers
Frank O’Hara on Daily Life in New York City
Frank Zappa on Organized Religion
Friedrich Nietzsche on The Definition of a Philosopher
George Plimpton on The Difference Between Professional Sports and Orchestral Synchronicity
Greil Marcus on The Desperation of Road Movies
Harmony Korine on Provoking a Reaction
Harmony Korine’s Advice to Aspiring Writers
Haruki Murakami on Knowing When to Quit
Henry Miller on Writing About the Immoral
Hilton Als on Memory, Misremembered
Howard Stern on The Fear of Success
Hunter S. Thompson on Rolling Stone Magazine
Ingmar Bergman on the Life & Death of Great Art
Ira Glass’s Advice for Aspiring Writers
Jack Kerouac on ‘First Thought, Best Thought’
James Toback on Movie Vs. Documentary
Jane Jacobs on The Four Rules of Neighborhood Planning
Jeffrey Eugenides on What Compels People to Start Writing
Jesmyn Ward on Negative Self-Image
Jiro Ono on Developing a Palate
Joan Didion on Living In The World
Joan Didion on The San Bernardino Valley
Joel Meyerowitz on Ephemeral Connections
John Cassavetes on Why The Hollywood System Sucks
John Cheever on The Old New York
Jonathan Lethem on Proximity People
Joyce Carol Oates on Boxing & Pornography
Joyce Carol Oates on The Transcendent Aspect of Writing
Junot Diaz on The Fatal Risk of Forcing It
Ken Burns on Positive Manipulation in Storytelling
Ken Kesey on Exploring the Wilderness
Laird Hamilton on Civil Disobedience
Lena Dunham on Becoming a Young Independent Filmmaker
Lenny Bruce on The Essence of Satire
Lorne Michaels on The Importance of Having Boundaries
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on Expansion of The Conscious Mind
Margaret Atwood on Expository Fiction
Marina Abramovic on Self-Actualization
Mario Puzo on Retrospective Falsification
Marlon Brando on Success & Failure
Martin Scorsese on Spirituality In The Cinema
Mia Farrow on Human Compassion in Darfur
Michael Chabon on The Midnight Disease
Nic Pizzolatto on The Metaphysical in True Detective
Nick Cave on The Power of Ideas
Patti Smith on Joy & Suffering
Paul Thomas Anderson on Dropping Out of Film School
Paul Thomas Anderson on Megalomania vs. Control
Pauline Kael on the Lackluster Quality of Movies
Pauline Kael on Fear of Movies
Peggy Noonan on The Failure of Journalism
Pete Townshend on ‘Positive Assistance Vibration’
Philip Roth on Reader Versus Book
Quentin Tarantino on The Writing Process
Rabbi Dov Ber on The 7 Things You Can Learn From a Thief
Raymond Carver on Dishonest Writing
Richard Avedon on The Importance of Tapping Your Fears
Richard Dawkins on Getting Something from Nothing
Roger Ebert on Writing from Memory
Sheryl Sandberg on Gender Inequality
Stanley Kubrick on Photography & Problem-Solving
Stephen King on The Importance of Writing Every Day
Steve Jobs on The Bane of All Great Companies
Steve Jobs on The Real-Life Application of Video Games
Steve Wozniak on Working Alone
Steven Soderbergh on The Primary Difference Between Movies & Cinema
Steven Spielberg on The Motion Picture Industry
Terrence Malick on ‘Days of Heavens’
Tina Fey on Gender Bias In The Workplace
Tom Waits on Commercial Licensing of Songs
Tony Kushner on Writing Under Panic
Truman Capote on Being ‘Subnormal’
Vince Gilligan on The Primary Difference Between Movies & TV