When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way… — Frances Stark Copy Share Image
If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
For me, I'm not a great wordsmith, and so maybe from lack of great dialogue writing, I thought it's easier and better… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright. — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do. — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“They couldn't talk. They were not good talkers, either of them. And once, long ago now, she had bought a notebook for… — Keith Ridgway Copy Share Image
It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“If I can make a difference to some readers and help them to escape from some pains of unforgiveness and emotional misery… — Roger Macdonald Andrew Copy Share Image
Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some… — Kieron Gillen Copy Share Image
Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“When we write with power and authenticity, it opens the door to our hearts and invites others in. When we're brave, we… — Lynda Cheldelin Fell Copy Share Image
I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter. — David Benioff Copy Share Image
What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
To be honest I don't really know because I really didn't care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what… — Sophie Marceau Copy Share Image
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and… — Patrick Wang Copy Share Image
This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Write from your heart, write from your soul.. make the best of your talent and don't ever let it go not for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush. — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books. — Ian Plimer Copy Share Image
“I am a writer: to the core of my being, the marrow of my bones. . . to the depth of my… — Valjeanne Jeffers Copy Share Image
I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people are more visual learners, which means that they find it easier to watch something to learn… — Joe Sugg Copy Share Image
“My new book is going well. It’s practically writing itself! Actually, what I mean is I’m not writing it, my clone is.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He said, You’ll write it not because there’s no possibility it’ll be found but because it costs too much to not write… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I am definitely writing letters to lots of directors in my mind when I'm making a film. I'm chasing Woody Allen and… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Writing all day every day is good, but it’s not good enough. You need to have your clone ghostwriting for you too.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
