I always go for just really, hopefully, great writing and great acting, being in the company of great actors. — Paula Malcomson Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great… — Matt Lauria Copy Share Image
“You become a great writer by writing lots and lots of stories, not by rewriting the same story over and over again.” — Scott William Carter Copy Share Image
I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
There’s a need to perfect things in a writers’ room, and that can take a lot of fun out of a show… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“Avril had the sense they say comes with your last moments; not so much that she saw her life flashing before her… — Mick Herron Copy Share Image
Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great… — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
Writing is great because in the writing you never have to... First of all you never have to leave your home. And… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“That spike of terror went through me again. He was like a raptor, not cruel, not good or evil, only and utterly… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To… — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing,… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented… — Richard Harmon Copy Share Image
“He found her seated on her veranda steps, picking grass seeds out of a pair of old khaki army socks. About sixty,… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
“My ideas and judgment proceed only gropingly, faltering, tripping, and stumbling; and when I have gone as far as I can, I… — Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Things get worse. When Mum is drugged and sad and singing tunes from the Roger Whittaker album every night, that is one… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great… — John Steinbeck Journal of a Novel - The East of Eden Letters Copy Share Image
“This was the place that shaped Arthur, this backwater, where the deep British past persisted the way scraps of winter snow last… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
To me, great writing - and when you can really make something wonderful out of it as an actor - is when… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
