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I was entirely wrapped up in the idea of becoming an actor. I learned how to write on the job, basically out… — Glenn Howerton Copy Share Image
I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
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“She got inside me with her story. I could feel her flowing in me and far, faraway I related in parallel. Her… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like… — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
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Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Twitter could save a lot of money by writing its executives' names on their doors with pencil instead of fancy placards. Like… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
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The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
I started writing my own things when I was about 8. I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
“Recall, then, some event that has left a distinct impression on you---how at the corner of the street, perhaps, you passed two… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Writing can be taken up at any point. But you need to remember that the arts are fundamentally unfair. Hard work and… — David Brin Copy Share Image
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The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us… — David Crane Copy Share Image
It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my… — Max Landis Copy Share Image
When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then… — Nas Copy Share Image
It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
These poets (fans of whatever) should be contacting other young poets on their way - not those who have made it, who… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard… — Ferdinand Christian Baur Copy Share Image
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My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
Some writing courses will advise you to write what you know. I've always thought this is very odd advice ... because it… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image