In general, there wasn't enough attention paid to attributes of Tuvok's that, in many cases, could have gotten the crew out of… — Tim Russ Copy Share Image
I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
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I'm always writing my own music, recording my own music, even if I am 9/10 of the time recording stuff for other… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
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The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
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Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
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If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
In the writers' room, the challenge is always to tell interesting stories in unexpected ways, so we try to never limit ourselves… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
“if you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read.” — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
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The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a landscape -… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
A close girlfriend of mine and I have been writing and playing together for years and decided to make it official, so… — Bethany Joy Lenz Copy Share Image
There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
If you're writing, it means getting up and writing all day, and if you're filming, it's getting up and filming all day.… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul,… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
“[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
If you are genuinely writing to Time Out for financial advice I'd stop worrying about ending up horribly poor and just accept… — Tom Rosenthal Copy Share Image
The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
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As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first. — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
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I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people. — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
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Even a song like 'Give Love,' in my head, there's a question as I'm writing it, going, 'Is this cheesy? Is it… — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
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