For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
'21 Jump Street' is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“Male writers, especially male writers during the 1960s, somehow tricked people into thinking that they were demigods because they had an understanding… — Jennifer Wright Copy Share Image
“I struggle each day not to let the fear of the censor poison my writing. Where the censor rules, a dull sameness… — Harry Mazer Copy Share Image
To me one of the amazing technologies of writing is the way it can listen in on thoughts. I don't feel that… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always,… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died already. It… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or… — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
I might think that equality has been achieved, there is no power relation going on in terms of class, race, or gender,… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“No one can claim to have produced any work without [the Muses'] help: the very fact that it exists proves they smiled… — Natalie Haynes Copy Share Image
“What’s the difference between this school and a happy retirement community?” The room was silent again. “The difference is ’rithmetic! A retired… — B.J. Novak Copy Share Image
A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Songs will always become a story in some way. I think it's my strongpoint as a writer musically. I don't shy away… — Mike Stud Copy Share Image
There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story… — Linda Conrad Copy Share Image
In an average week I'll be testing recipes, doing a voice-over, filming and writing. I cram everything in Monday to Friday because… — Nadiya Hussain Copy Share Image
The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I guess you go back to the old writer's adage that when they do your stuff in Hollywood, you smile sweetly upon… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
In my opinion, I feel like all versions of 'Deathstroke' are valid. Just like with 'Black Panther,' I felt like it wasn't… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
When I left home, my mum said "Don't forget to write", I thought, "That's unlikely"... It's a basic skill isn't it. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to… — Chris LeDoux Copy Share Image
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
When writing, I model all the heroes after myself. Of course, it's hard to make them quite as wonderful as I am,… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
“You don't need to know how a story ends, but how it begins. Start writing ...and the rest of the story will… — Jason W. Blair Copy Share Image
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