“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I just like to go where the material is, whether that's TV, or movies, or the stage. As long as it's great… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
The idea that you waited for that particular issue to come out, but then you planned your TV viewing for the coming… — David Bianculli 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
“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
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
