Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I really enjoy blocking and staging. I think most of visual storytelling is camera placement and how to stage action around the… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
I dont fully understand my wifes emotions - and Im supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of… — Evan Goldberg Copy Share Image
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Id love to have another film to go on to. Im in the mood to work. But I have to be patient,… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“Most of the time it may seem like I'm staring into nothingness, but there's a whole world playing out in my head.” — Aneta Cruz Copy Share Image
Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Once you familiarize yourself with your tools, you should forget about them. It will only throw you off-balance. In all these ‘rolling… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
“The principle which protects personal writings and all other personal productions, not against theft and physical appropriation, but against publication in any… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's… — Ed Robertson Copy Share Image
There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I just happen to be from the generation that, like a lot of my older friends, started out writing letters. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in… — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Technology has very little to do with what I do. I have a purpose built studio but all I need for writing… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I've turned my back on fancy parties and red carpets. I'm a writer, and if I did that, I'd never get anything… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people's moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I… — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I've always tried to do in my comedy and my writing… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
“Good storytelling lets the audience relive events in the present so they can understand the forces, choices, and emotions that led the… — John Truby Copy Share Image
There are plenty of paths to becoming a writer, but I think the most reliable ones involve total commitment: writing for magazines… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“We write in darkness. We love in alleys. We breathe into beige paper bags. Anything to mollify the confusion. Anything to simplify… — Bill Yarrow Copy Share Image
You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was. — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
