“All I require of a translator is that he or she be a more gifted writer than I am, and in at… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I want to just go to places where writers don't usually go, where people like me don't usually show up, and say,… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter. — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I'm late it matters, but when everybody else is late it doesn't matter... If that's the rule then just write it… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I think television is moving more into movies, particularly with serialization and almost cinematic proportions and expectations. A show like 'Game of… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
“Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from… — Karen White Copy Share Image
Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act? — Victoria Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
For myself, I feel more natural writing stories or novels than writing plays. I feel more like myself, like I can express… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If you know anything about writing biographies, or what is regarded as a good biography, you have minimum input from the person… — Lady Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about… — Jerry Harrison Copy Share Image
If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I knew how to write like an academic, so I knew how to write academic papers and essays and things. But the… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me… — Fernando Torres Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself. — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
Get your passion on the paper. Detach from the outcome. Forget about whether it's going to get published. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“In writing, a good guy must never break any of the Ten Commandments. A bad guy must break every one. That's why… — Kimberly Black Copy Share Image
Meg Ryan was nice [ in When Harry Met Sally] ... the writing was good ... but it was really kind of… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
I always get nervous before a gig, so I look over my writing, trying not to fantasise about all the things that… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the… — Jean Arthur Copy Share Image
If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When we accomplish a goal, it instantly loses some of its importance and we tend to lose interest. When we write down… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
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