After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing,… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
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I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians.… — Whitney Cummings Copy Share Image
About writing I learned that always, always, always it's necessary to haunt your settings. I'm a big researcher. All my fiction is… — Lucy Jane Bledsoe Copy Share Image
As a director you have to live and breathe that one story for 8 months completely. I like variety, if I write… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I certainly want people to read what I've written. Yet, and here's that question of economic position, because I have a secure… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for… — Gary Louris Copy Share Image
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With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking… — Skip Horack Copy Share Image
Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
We've had experience of involvement in a local scene, and it was a good one, and we've learned a lot from it,… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What I react against in other people's work, as a filmgoer, is when I see something in a movie that I feel… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters:… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I never really have blank page syndrome. I don't get blocked. I have a plan for my novel before I start which,… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
“The financing option favoured by this writer would be to fund a basic income from the construction of sovereign wealth funds, along… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
“I was in my study writing. I was learning how to go down into myself and salvage bits and pieces of the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Because we spent so much time in the writer's room, not even talking about where it goes, but just who the people… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
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While I was writing the book, I went to see Louise Brooks's most famous film, Pandora's Box, at the Tivoli in Kansas… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
We started writing the shows in order, and then very quickly had to jump to, "Oh, we got Tony Hale today and… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
I said that Mrs Obama has been extremely supportive of American designers, but clearly we were disappointed that she chose to wear… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
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I think I have a vested interest in thinking that the lyrics are important, but I think for us it's important that… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I'm not imprisoned in any one medium. In films I use techniques that are not necessarily what other directors attempt. When I… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
I've changed over my writing life. If I can generalize, I would say that the more recent poems - believe it or… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I didn't get fired." "You didn't punch your boss and get fired from the Tribune? That's what I heard." "I punched what… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
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