We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry. — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I got Cs in English at school. I hated it. But now I want to be a writer and I'm voracious for… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
I think talking is as casual as blogging, and sometimes writing can be as casual as talking. My informal writing style is… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading… — Guy Johnson Copy Share Image
To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and… — John Green Copy Share Image
My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
One of the mistakes they often make is the designers over-accessorize or over-elaborate. So you realize: this would work if they removed… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I'm in love with the way that Ella Fitzgerald delivered a lyric. She would deliver a lyric with the kind of clarity… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
I have been very afraid of writing about other cultures and countries. I've been worried about getting the research wrong. I ask… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot and Jean-Paul Sartre, dissimilar enough as thinkers, both tend to undervalue prose and to deny it any imaginative function.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler Copy Share Image
I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
My father, Inder Raj Anand, was a well-known writer in the film industry but he did not want me, or my younger… — Tinnu Anand Copy Share Image
A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I always had a gift with writing. I can really write. I always felt like I can write movies or somehow get… — Dave East Copy Share Image
Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I love people and psychology. As a writer, I’m not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car.… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
After Mad Season, I started writing my own music for Pearl Jam and brought it in. 'Given To Fly' came out of… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
“I know nothing of writing books properly. I write in the same manner I live life: one feeling at a time. If… — Cara Rosalie Olsen Copy Share Image
Here in New York City you can now walk around smoking weed and all they will do if they see you is… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well. — Kyla Pratt Copy Share Image
I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be… — James Welch Copy Share Image
The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“All good storytellers are of necessity good writers - even if they may be poorly edited ones. Unfortunately, not all good writers… — Nupur Tustin Copy Share Image
I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
It's a lot of people who can perform, but they can't write. And it's a lot of people that can write that… — Scarface Copy Share Image
You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person. — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
There's so much written about my family, some true, mostly not true, and I felt that it's not something I want to… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
I didn't just write about boys and relationships like usual. I wrote about other things: rock 'n' roll, nostalgia, Hello Kitty. — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image