“Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
All I'd ever wanted to do in my life was write and publish books, and woe to anyone who stood in my… — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous. — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“The ideas will follow me. When they're off-guard, and ready to be born, I'll turn around and grab them.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The second series is always my favourite as a writer/director; you can hit the ground running... so that's fun. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside. — Jamie Farr Copy Share Image
I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I think for writers, I think it's really important to court eviction from your tribe: to expose things and to wake people… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As soon as I sat down to write music, really, with Café Blue. I just can't think about that when I sit… — Patricia Barber Copy Share Image
“I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing?… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
One time I said to Jordan [Peele], in a text, "I will pick you up at 2:30. So if you're just standing… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
Some writers are prolific; some are shape-shifters. It's rare and intimidating to encounter one who is both. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I never produce a song, whether writing it or making a beat, and give it a wack visual or wack performance. I'm… — Travis Scott Copy Share Image
write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All my success belongs to those who have contributed in my pursuit of art, ranging from writers and directors to makeup artists,… — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with… — Kaki King Copy Share Image
George Smith shows how many of the prophet’s followers embraced plural marriage during a period when the LDS Church was emphatically denying… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
I hate to write! But I love to talk, so I'm told that when people read my books, it like I'm there… — Steven Gundry Copy Share Image
Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Being honest to who I am led me to write 'If Our Love Is Wrong,' and that allowed me to fully realize… — Calum Scott Copy Share Image
I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Writing from a personal experience can bring about this emotion and power of emotion that can be instantly connected to the instrument,… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
I'm not smart enough to write about something that didn't actually happen to me. But I couldn't write a space movie if… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
I'm a human just like any of the people that you adore, whether they're in TV shows or movies or they're writers… — Tyler Oakley Copy Share Image
From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
“In the novels he was to write as an adult, transformation (along with liberation and celebration) was a major theme.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
![“One time I said to Jordan [Peele], in a text, "I will pick you up at 2:30. So if you're just standing out in front of the building, we'll go from there to the next meeting. Cool?" And my man just writes, "Wordness to the turdness."” quote by Keegan-Michael Key](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ac8/keegan-michael-key-9705_building_one-time-i-said-to-jordan-peele-in-a-tex_3181911.jpg)
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