It's always fun to get to do independent film because I believe that that's the life blood of film. It's about writers… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
I have the infinite galaxy from '2001 as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Sometimes I leave mayonnaise on the ends of my hair for a few hours while I'm writing; it's a really good moisturizer. — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“A good writer knew when not to write. Anybody could type. Not that I was a good typist; also I couldn't spell… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Mythographer was suggested by the man who made my website, actually. I do write a lot about myth and I do feel… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It's a really weird feeling when you write something and you really know it and then you watch actors come in and… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“I have never believed in the axiom that a writer should first and foremost write about what he knows. I think it’s… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers… — George V Higgins Copy Share Image
... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it. For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Let the letters clash forming an invisible meaning of a sunny night, freezing chimney, and silent screams. When words betray you, hold… — Mona Naqi Copy Share Image
I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write… — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
“The most profound, life-altering gift you can offer the Indie writer you love is to TELL as MANY avid readers as you… — R.S. Guthrie Copy Share Image
Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I… — Clarissa Dickson Wright Copy Share Image
I had this grand plan for writing the history of the United States in six volumes. This was in the mid-1990s; I… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears,… — Sandra Worth Copy Share Image
“You may be wonderful with words, but your best writing comprises of the words that had been said to you by somebody… — Gaurav Sharma Copy Share Image
A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with… — Angus Stone Copy Share Image
As Daniel Levitin writes, our brain is a "giant pattern detector." If we read something that coincides with what we already believe… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the… — Peter Ferrara Copy Share Image
I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I… — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image
“My advice to all young writers is quite simple. I would caution them never to evade a new experience. I would urge… — John Fante Copy Share Image
