If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The hardest thing for everyone, for the writer, for the director and certainly for the actors, is not to panic when they're… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
Making a film is hard because you're not dealing with the intangible. When you're writing, it's perfect because it's only in your… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative thrust of a movie.… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, I started taking psychology courses. I was interested in the nature of the human mind,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“I never wish I could go back and write more, no. I spent a long, long time trying to write the book… — John Green Copy Share Image
A lot of love records or breakup records, a lot of the songs can tend to be on the blame side and… — Nicole Atkins Copy Share Image
The things that I have done that haven't been as successful have been things that have been largely out of the public… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
You can't control how things that you're involved with are received. But 'The Thick of It' wasn't intended as an instruction manual.… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
I had not been very kind to J. Edgar Hoover. And the field agent had written on - it was sent directly… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I've always been surprised when a straight guy likes me. It's just been like my whole life has been kinda like that.… — Allie X Copy Share Image
There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former.… — Paul Horgan Copy Share Image
The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
I'd never been a tract writer; I'd never been a philosopher; I'd never taken part in extraordinary industrial dispute activism; I'd not… — David Lange Copy Share Image
I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time.… — Carol Emshwiller Copy Share Image
There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We started when we're around 13 writing it - maybe 14. I'm a little older than Evan Goldberg is, like, only like… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Men with fine gifts think it worth while to live to paint a few great pictures which shall be looked at and… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string… — Joyce DeWitt Copy Share Image
I'm a critic. That means you are a writer. So, yes, you have to make yourself an authority on whatever subject it's… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
My main qualm about TV criticism has been when people review TV the way they review movies. They watch the pilot, and… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“After a long while he sat upright with great effort, exhaled a sigh and reached for a clean sheet of lined paper,… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it.… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
Everything is so much clearer once a world is framed. Maybe it sounds crazy, but with writing, it's infinity that is limiting… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven. Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
“Let the systematic theologian spell it out. Let the artists throw out thoughts and slants, maybe even slants no one else has… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
I want my daughters to see me and know me as a woman who works. I want that example set for them...… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
When I first started, everything happened at once. I became religious, my musical career took off, I got married, I had kids,… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
We're looking at a lot of race cars as inspiration for our starships. It's wonderful. It's surreal. I didn't want to be… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
There was this one model in French Elle. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be her. She was brunette… — Rae Earl Copy Share Image
“The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is… — Eric Sloane Copy Share Image
I'd gotten to a point where I would write a lyric and then delete it because I was worried about how it… — Thomston Copy Share Image
“To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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