I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged,… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
The whole idea is that the combination of tight activity and slack activity allows me to be both productive and creative at… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
At the age of 10 I started writing to the BBC about getting into broadcasting. It went on for years. I was… — Phillip Schofield Copy Share Image
“Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories that might otherwise have ended in paralysis or worse. By… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories--mad wives in the attic, strange apparitions in Belgium--are a representation of the… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
“Instead of saying, ‘The writing in this scene isn’t good enough,’ you say, ‘Don’t you want people to walk out of the… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
Which is strange - I've always thought of myself as someone who writes out of difficulty. And I did do that, but… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to impress the professors at… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“In response to a letter regarding the writer's lack of religious belief: The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.” — Abigail van Buren Copy Share Image
One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo… — Lincoln Diaz-Balart Copy Share Image
I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents… — Mark O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Sometimes writers or writer-directors can get nuts about words, but you know and I know that it's the thought process behind the… — John Kapelos Copy Share Image
“Nordic writers to include social critiques in their fiction. It was one of the qualities I had admired since first reading Sjöwall” — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
I'm writing, I'm directing, I'm editing, I'm mixing, I'm showrunning. There is a certain point where it's like, the work is the… — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight. — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art… — Aden Young Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that… — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
As cliche as that sounds, Maya Angelou is one of the best writers I've ever read. She's very wise and to the… — Goldlink Copy Share Image
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