As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
With 'Slave Ambient', I was writing things on top of loops. Now I really get the structure of the song down, but… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I'd like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“If I wish to write anything across the pages of your life that I do not wish to ascribe my name to,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
As an inveterate lover of mystery, cracking the code of a writer's true identity has the same effect, for me, as tasting… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all… — Misty Edwards Copy Share Image
For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I'm not a standup. I didn't start off as a writer, I learned to write through improvisation, and so that's the part… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Why do you think I'm obsessed with this idea of giving the world an alphabet-soup enema?' (This was our code language for… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping… — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I… — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
I'm way more in my head acting than I am when I'm writing. So there's a weird love/hate on both ends. But… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I like to dissociate myself from the person I was even three hours ago. It's a natural requirement to be a writer. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to… — Davy Rothbart Copy Share Image
I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Actually, I wish I did nothing but write. Acting takes a lot of heat off of me monetarily but it puts a… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
“A writer may not know the way at first; but if he endeavors to complete his task, he carves a path with… — Susan J. McIntire Copy Share Image
“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know… — Sharon O'Brien Copy Share Image
That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“Admire the habits and accomplishments of other authors, but not to the extend it depresses or distracts you from accomplishing your own… — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
Every writer should be able to write anything if you do the research and you're sensitive enough to ask the questions. — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
Weirdly, even as I became more confident as a writer and as a person, I completely lost faith in my own ability… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
