“He would like to be capable of writing as he thinks, quickly, without effort, the word as agile and dynamic as athletes… — Filippo Bologna Copy Share Image
Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
You need to write a book, what's going on with my serve. It's disaster. I don't bend my legs. Instead of jumping… — Dinara Safina Copy Share Image
Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
“Years ago I used to pick a word of the day randomly out of an dictionary/thesaurus to write poetry. I learned then… — DragonPoetikFly Copy Share Image
The parts that embarrass you the most are usually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Writers have a job to do. Editors do, too. You have to stand ground and cede ground on a case by case… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
“Workshop Hermeticism, fiction for which the highest praise involves the words 'competent,' 'finished,' 'problem-free,' fiction over which Writing-Program pre- and proscriptions loom… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think, one day, I might actually try writing a bunch of - a collection of essays maybe on the funnier side… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“That economics has a considerable conceptual apparatus with an appropriate terminology can not be a serious ground for complaint. Economic phenomena, ideas,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“... there's a hormone secreted into the bloodstream of most writers that makes them hate their own work while they are doing… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good.… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
“Anyway, my writer gang: they kind of did their comedy apprenticeship with me and, during that period, when they were young and… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
I could always write in a wide variety. My moods change same as reader's moods change. I really do love writing the… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in writing overtly autobiographical songs. I would rather explore interesting stories. I like the idea of the songs being… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
In that way, any world you create will become real. The reader makes it so. The reader becomes implicated in the creation… — Pinckney Benedict Copy Share Image
“Who Am I? I’m a creator, a visionary, a poet. I approach the world with the eyes of an artist, the ears… — Sharon M. Draper Copy Share Image
On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves,… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I remember Prince gave me a cassette of Purple Rain. It was like 20 minutes long and he asked me to write… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound.… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“To me, the urge to be published is equivalent to the first quarter of the hero's journey, where normal life seems not… — Rob Parnell Copy Share Image
“I never went to college — I don’t believe in college for writers. The thing is very dangerous. I believe too many… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My ability maps my own writing. I haven't spent a whole lot of time biting licks from the really quick masters. That's… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
“I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as… — Robert Pirosh Copy Share Image
“I was born into this torrid world a degenerate, eternally condemned a vessel of belligerency, destined to one day end. But despite… — Evan Guerra Copy Share Image
To me, every episode is like a song, and every season is like an album. There's that part of the day when… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
I can't wait to do a fully improvised script again, to find people who are really comfortable and into it. It's about… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
“... I find in all the works of the greatest writers, especially in their unedited letters, some touch, some sign of myself… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“one of the many valuable recommendations in this book is that we academics should, collectively, talk to each other more about how… — Maggie Berg Copy Share Image
I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
For me, everyone I write of is real. I have little true say in what they want, what they do or end… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice,… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
A lot of my friends do creative things and are doing really well at what they do - some writers, some artists.… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image