I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
I love television, and my love for it has made me curious about writing it. It feels like television's moving toward something… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“When I started writing I was a sick teenaged fuck inside who partly thought I was the new Marquis de Sade, a… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever wrote a song. I can write a lot of jokes, but when I try to write lyrics… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Cheers was one of the first shows where I paid attention to the writers because their [work] was better than everything else… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
“That kind of thinking [that writers must alleviate their guilt for leading a creative life] is based on the idea that the… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had… — Virginia Gildersleeve Copy Share Image
Twitter is incredibly useful. It's a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text.… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“Nathaniel, who has failed as a writer, decides to commit suicide. He loads his revolver, places it at his side on his… — Enrique Anderson-Imbert Copy Share Image
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of 20th century orchestral music, the experimental avant-garde composers of the '50s, '60s, and '70s. In horror movies you… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
I write not because I've to, I write because I'm compelled too. I love what I do, I see purpose in the… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
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Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
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It's so much work to make a movie, and for me it has to get me off my butt. To get me… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I think one artist to another artist, the best compliment you can pay one another, because the part of you that is… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
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I try to impart this when people say they want to be a writer and they want to go into show biz.… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
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