If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or… — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always,… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died already. It… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
I wish I could write solely from imagination, but then I would not have a story to write. I need to produce… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing, if I could choose anything to do, it wouldn't be to be in front of a camera because… — Jarryd James Copy Share Image
All of my books have an internal geometric shape, and once I've seen the shape, then the writing gets much faster and… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
There are cinéphiles and cinéphages. Truffaut is a cinéphile. A cinéphage - a film nerd - sits in the front row and… — Henri Langlois Copy Share Image
Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?" "Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't understand it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“Few Chinese who write can write all of the spoken Chinese words that they can understand. To become significantly learned in the… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
When a psychiatrist writes a bestseller, he is then urged to write a book of advice. But I think our culture's awash… — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
When I was younger, people were inventing a new way of writing - James Joyce, Hemingway, Faulkner. And I thought we had… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
“Yet entertainment--as I define it, pleasure and all--remains the only sure means we have of bridging, or at least of feeling as… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The most difficult speculation for a science fiction writer to undertake is to imagine correctly the *secondary* implications of a new factor.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
With winning the Baftas - with the writing one in particular - it was like, 'What? Writing? I'm not a writer. I… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My feelings are, if you're gonna lead a rock n' roll lifestyle, don't let it affect your work. I know I can… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes you read something and it's just -- it doesn't invite a reader…Sometimes you read something and it's not saying, 'oh come… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When I first start writing a song, I usually write the title first, then the song, and I'll sing the song in… — La'Porsha Renae Copy Share Image
Id been thinking about directing for a while. I write a lot, so I have a lot of scripts, and I have… — Angus Macfadyen Copy Share Image
I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
“The only private language I know is self-exaggeration. I think I've grown a second self in this room. It's the self-important fool… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
So I made an outline. Well, you know, days are going by, and I am not writing anything because this thing is… — Steve Tesich Copy Share Image
Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
What I've learned being a writer is to just basically not buckle - not be belligerent, not be angry, not throw fits.… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
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