A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising… — Steve Bisley Copy Share Image
“Everyone is blessed in their own way. One can be blessed in writing and not sports. No matter what you are blessed… — Braxton Stewart Copy Share Image
I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm writing a memoir. I'm four pages in. I start with my first memory, which is kicking my uncle in the balls.… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12,… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
“Och, lass. Yer going to have to not do that.” Faolán exhaled. “Creeping up on a man is a dangerous thing, and… — Shannon MacLeod Copy Share Image
I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
“On a writer’s path there are always some level of pain and solitude, life and death, love and hate, longing and fullness… — Frederick Vanderbuilt Copy Share Image
The thing is that I don't normally think in terms of manga when I'm writing. Sounds odd from someone who has is… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
“Mom hadn't met Ramon; her advocacy was more arm's length - petitions, the website, letter writing, meetings with politicians. Her friend Hanna… — Robin Stevenson Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
I think a writer's first job is to entertain, even in novels: to tell a compelling story that pulls the reader along… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I'm fun, ruthless, articulate, impatient, maybe a little cavalier. I'm a woman and a feminist. I'm transgender. I'm an actress, a reluctant… — Hari Nef Copy Share Image
“Writing now makes me feel as if I had lost at least one of my senses. I can't hear you or see… — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion… — Rockne S. O'Bannon Copy Share Image
I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
The different part of writing and singing worship lies in the identity and truth of God's Word and true intention for us… — Jonathan Cain Copy Share Image
It used to bother me being portrayed as this bitchy person, but now I feel that the public understands me better than… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more… — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I have been writing since I was a kid. I also traveled a good deal for my work and did extended stays… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our… — Val Edward Simone Copy Share Image
No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month. — John Michael Hayes Copy Share Image
If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane. — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong.… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot… — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
