'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and… — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet.… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
I don't like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don't know anything about. — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image
If you're writing a song about a relationship ending, what you're really doing is honoring how much that person meant to you. — Conor O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there's lots to write about.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Writer's block to me is where you stop because you're afraid to go forward because you're not sure of what really should… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Writing a novel was like I had some Play-Doh to work with and could just keep working with it - doing a… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“A message from Love: Write my name in silent script upon your heart; and then… go anywhere, and be what you have… — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
“The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
“Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. . . " Wildebeest of… — Eileen Granfors Copy Share Image
Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be… — David Chase Copy Share Image
If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it. — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right. — Heston Blumenthal Copy Share Image
I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm quite often interested in writing and sculpture, installation, and photography, obviously, just as much as filmmaking. — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Writing does not numb, comfort, or soothe me. It does the opposite. It tends to excite me and reinscribe pain. It doesn't… — Myriam Gurba Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers. — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
'Despacito' started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this track came after I wrote… — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image
Putting out compilation records, buying the right to music is incredibly complicated. You have to find the writer of the song and… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Eternity has no gray hairs. The flowers fade, the heart withers, people grow old and die, the world lies down in the… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
“For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
I write in my house, at my desk, where I have Christmas lights strung over it to try and convince me that… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
