I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks. — Barry Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
No matter what situation I'm in, I always feel better writing something in the middle of whatever emotion I'm feeling. So it… — Benson Boone Copy Share Image
In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie,… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me… — Eric Davis Copy Share Image
Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it… — Dhani Jones 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 advice is not the product of an equation. "If you do X, then Y will occur" is false in this instance.… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I started writing music in a season of my life where people were telling me I wasn't defined by mistakes, and God… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have… — John L. DeWitt Copy Share Image
My advice to writers: thank goodness we can revise and adjust and tighten and rethink before going public with our words. Revision… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
“Just a word is friend, yet when seen on a screen will bring a beaming smile to the writer and receiver of… — Miggy J. Noble Copy Share Image
“have you read any book from "heinrich boll"?he is my faverit writer . what do u think about his books?” — Heinrich Bollinger Copy Share Image
I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music,… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“A stickler hallmark is that those who speak or write differently can't merely be wrong; they must be depraved, too.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in boxing. Those who say, 'Oh, boy; Tom Hauser is writing an article about me,' and… — Jim Lampley Copy Share Image
The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
An epic subject requires a writer of epic skill and scope, and we have a perfect pairing in Cleopatra and Stacy Schiff.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
“Prompts are like lingerie for the brain. They stimulate, excite and produce uplifting results. -Christine M.” — Debra R. Sanchez Copy Share Image
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
The name [Spooky] comes from well back in university I was doing a series of essays and writing about Sigmund Freud's idea… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers. — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next.… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the… — Mary Stuart Masterson Copy Share Image
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