The best person to write for is yourself—and what better place to start than in a journal. — E. L. James Copy Share Image
If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end. — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I really just sat down to write. I mean, I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving,… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
It's amazing what happens when you're confident as an artist. The writing completely changes, and you're no longer depressed about your sound… — AJ Michalka Copy Share Image
Besides acting which is my first love, I am also interested in behind the scenes.. Directing , writing and producing. — Josh Flitter Copy Share Image
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writing is pure hell. I'll write something and look at it in a few hours and say, "This is crap. What… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy's questions… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
“It may be that those who care for poetry lost little by his death. Fluent in prose, he never wrote verse for… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
