“I believe the greatest pleasure in writing is in the progressive artistry of it. Each project is an attempt to do better… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing,… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The expression I use: Pain + Reality = Progress. Whenever I would have a painful mistake, I started to view that as… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“I write - poignantly, in the most heartfelt way - about how I miss her and how I detest my life in… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English;… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
The universe doesn't really care if you bounce back. It doesn't feel that weird to write about paralysis or being in hospital… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I'm really proud to be a woman making music. Nothing makes me happier than when other women approach me at shows and… — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested… — Gregory Peck Copy Share Image
Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of… — Barbara Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to… — Rachel Copy Share Image
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
To write poetry is to be very alone, but you always have the company of your influences. But you also have the… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I try to write for highest common denominator. I don't write for dumb people. I figure if everybody doesn't get it, that's… — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
“You ask if I will write a poem I could, I suppose write the most splendiferous one of all but not right… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I just write songs from the heart, and you never know who'll like the songs. I try to make sure that I… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a… — David Perry Copy Share Image
All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
I think it's essential for writers to be involved in the recording process as things can often go wrong in this area.… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This is the plot up to the moment when the writer leaves the woman still dolefully enmeshed in it, and, suitcase in… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
In the Making Of book ["300"] there's a guy named Victor Davis Hanson who is a a frickin genius. He's a Greek… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
You need to know that going in, and you also need to be able to write all the time. So when somebody… — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I don't support or unsupport Assange. If the Democrats had the proper defensive devices on their internet, equipment, they wouldn't even allow… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The true art is being able to take whatever the writer's done, and if it is a bit flimsy or it is… — Billy Howle Copy Share Image
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
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