I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
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I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
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I would give anything to sing like Beyonce or Adele. I've said many times to my friends that if I could sing… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Not working in journalism enables full attention to writing projects, which is good. But I miss the benefits of daily contact with… — Linden MacIntyre Copy Share Image
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Over the years, I think, people - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
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If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
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My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but… — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I have the same criteria for choosing roles as I have always had: fantastic writing and complicated characters. — Paula Malcomson Copy Share Image
Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
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We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters. — John Updike Copy Share Image
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Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality. — Pieter Geyl Copy Share Image
'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
John Steinbeck is one of the most under-discussed and under-written-about of all American writers. He is way up there and should stand… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
I write my lyrics the day I sing the song, so even when I have the basic things, I'm thinking what can… — Kirk Windstein Copy Share Image
I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note… — Kieran Culkin Copy Share Image
I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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