There are people who are really great musicians. I've met a lot of them. And I'm not a great musician. I'm adequate… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
I think the writing and the casting and all of that has so much to do with actors becoming their characters. I… — Scott Michael Foster Copy Share Image
For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of… — Katie Wech Copy Share Image
“There were absolutely amazing photographs everywhere, on everyone's Facebook page and everyone's iPhone and Instagram, just floating around in cyberspace for eternity.… — Nora Raleigh Baskin Copy Share Image
I wanted to write songs about other people because I was sick of myself, basically. I didn't like myself very much. 'Ghostwriting'… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
I don't think that anyone was trying to keep me from writing the first album. It's just when you're on 'American Idol'… — Lauren Alaina Copy Share Image
I have a really, really difficult time with dramaturgy sometimes in America, because I write about other cultures. I write about a… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Not every owner of a qualified high-qualified for the position, and not every man did not have the opportunity to obtain higher… — Abdelrahman Sabry Copy Share Image
I had made a list of about ten things that I remembered from the original 'Total Recall' before I went back and… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
“I'm trained as an architect; writing is like architecture. In buildings, there are design motifs that occur again and again, that repeat… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“It is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the… — Eugene Manlove Rhodes Copy Share Image
The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
“write the story. push your hands into the dirtiest parts of yourself. take the rot & decay & turn it into nourishment… — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
When you're embarking on a piece of writing, the anxiety is just too much, especially when you're young and you're trying to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Writing isn't about performing. Writing is like looking for treasure, so it's sort of like you're out in the field. I wouldn't… — Jack Savoretti Copy Share Image
I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
I enjoy the research element. There are so many stories from the past that interest me, that I want to learn more… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
If and when I do get "down," the last thing on my mind is writing a song. Usually, being bummed just involves… — Wooden Wand Copy Share Image
For me writing is a long, hard, painful process, but it is addictive, a pleasure that I seek out actively. My advice… — Laurence Yep Copy Share Image
I also think it's still easy for us - as women, as writers and as directors and producers - to let it… — Mary Elizabeth Ellis Copy Share Image
I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Writers transform: they throw a hand grenade into the notion of reality that people carry around in their heads. That's very dangerous,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
The whole relationship between a writer's spiritual/emotional condition and the kind of wordstuff and form-making that's going on in his work is… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“ Journal Writing Keeping a journal is an extremely valuable practice. Right now, your mind may be racing with anxious thoughts and… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
“Do as you like, a minimal maxim, an old favorite of mine, so exalting and at the same time so difficult as… — Julián Ríos Copy Share Image
Writers…born not in the Halls of Education…but in the fires of necessity. Masters not of prose, form, language, or a perceived command… — Vladislas Nikilovic Copy Share Image
