The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
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I feel like if you know any women who's an essayist or a writer or a public speaker or just a public… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“If your written words become literal nails to crucify you with, then you have done your job well. You provoked a reaction,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
OMG YOU GUYS it has come to my attention that SOMEONE on the internet is saying that my fictional 19th century zombies… — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff.… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I write my music to minister to myself. I have enough sin and enough shortcomings and enough need in my own life… — Bob Carlisle Copy Share Image
“When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The War is the first and only thing in the world today. The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them,… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
I was really kind of miserable with myself personally and all of the things that you can be creatively, until someone said… — Sarah Jaffe Copy Share Image
“Larry McMurtry said that writers form their mental landscape in young adulthood. I spent my youth shuttling between a Texas father and… — Linda S. Bingham Copy Share Image
“Letter writing allows us to be alone yet connected. We need a certain amount of solitude in order to have true ideas… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
I remember when my first child was born, and I had a script that was due, and I asked the guy I… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
But I think a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or three times a year, fishing in the summer, and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I've always said my whole career that I wanted to write by the improv credo, 'don't negate,' which means, even if you… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
Exercise your imagination muscle! How many uses can you come up with for a flowerpot? Write down your answers. But don't write… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
So the aim for the press was a mixture of things: to publish under-represented writing, which is an intersection of original language,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic).… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Every character sees the world through a framework of education and experience that they're proud experts about. To write a character, find… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When a mortal man speaks anything of that eternal blessedness of the saints in glory, he is like a blind man discoursing… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
My experience is, the writer I was when I began was only a fraction of what I feel capable of doing now.… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Doubtful, but it did work... "Annabeth?" Percy said again. "You're planning something. You've got that I'm-planning-something look." "I don't have an I'm-planning-something… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had time yet.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may… — Alice James Copy Share Image
In my life, looking at other women who have been pregnant while writing, I always feel like it's kind of their most… — Kelis Copy Share Image
If you give a writer a pile of blank paper and say you can write anything you like on any subject you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
