From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There's a part of me, and I'm sure every single musician that writes for themselves has this: there's a layer of precious… — Sarah Jaffe Copy Share Image
“Moreover, it is important to recognize that notions of self-fashioning were circulating in Renaissance Europe not only among members of the rising… — Helena Goscilo Copy Share Image
Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique.… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
“Border crossing' is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work -- editing, writing, and painting. I'm interested in the various… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
I went to public schools in Bangor, Maine, and had as normal a childhood as you could imagine someone could, living in… — Owen King Copy Share Image
It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book.… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
If I'm reviewing a record, man, I play that record to death, which is ironic in a way because if I review… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
“Keeping this journal causes tension as much as it calms it. The writing busies my hands and occupies my mind, but there’s… — Wayne Gladstone Copy Share Image
Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it’s through classes, workshops, whatever is available to… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I know 'Dabangg' has some pre-requisites. Every film has some requisites that you have to fulfill. I sat down with my writer… — Arbaaz Khan Copy Share Image
I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Whether it means producing a piece of art, writing a short story, or simply bringing beauty into our home or into the… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then… — Ranbir Kapoor Copy Share Image
“Ministers should be very wary that they do not bring forth fuel to feed the fears and doubts of weak Christians in… — Don Kistler Copy Share Image
Writing and making films aren't different things to me. Or maybe it has become so, now. Making film is a very long… — Abdellah Taia Copy Share Image
I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are.… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
I love television because it's the most alive, because you don't know how it's going to end. It's a living thing. Sometimes… — Margo Martindale Copy Share Image
You're sad-looking," she said. "My grandson used to be such a happy boy. He used to write me stories. I remember the… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really… — Brad Garrett Copy Share Image
That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact.… — Polybius Copy Share Image
We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
I want each character to be as unique as possible. I want them to reflect something of who they are in the… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
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