I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I always thought, I can't waste time, I have to do work. I also thought that I was slower than other people,… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
“Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
To be quite honest, along with thinking and such when it comes to writing, I'm not into words like "theory." I'm a… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
It was like a dream come true for me. When you write the book, it's still intimate. It might have been a… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. I should be allowed to speak about my writing at times. And I'm really excited to speak about that.… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
“One day, with his usual head (I do not mean to imply that one can change heads as one changes hats, wearing… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
I tend to write during the day so I can see my children at night. But if my kids aren't with me… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
My song titles have different reasons for the mistakes. "Don't You Evah," that's just the way that I've always said it, and… — John Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“Back to the 1st Person: I'd even made up art theories about my inability to use it. That I'd chosen film and… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
If you make a film, that magic is not there, because you were there while shooting it. After writing a film and… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We do want the freedom to move scenes from episode to episode to episode. And we do want the freedom to move… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I ended up [doing video] meeting Gillian [Grassie] at the same time that we were getting together a book. We ended up… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Wimbledon fortnight is always a testing time for the home worker. I spend most of it on the phone to my writing… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
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I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you… — Brad Garrett Copy Share Image
They're pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are… — James Denton Copy Share Image
I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for 'Saturday Night Live,' has deftly adapted Rosalind Wiseman's nonfiction dissection of teenage girl societal… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The biggest thing this has in common with almost all of our records is the dualities are still there. We kind of… — Patterson Hood Copy Share Image
“The Great Cloud of Witnesses The writer of Hebrews wrote about the active pursuit of a faith that embraces discipleship: Therefore, since… — Bill Hull Copy Share Image
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Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing… It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
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