Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing. — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance. — Raymond Cruz Copy Share Image
The primary relationship on a film, where possible, should be between the director and writer. — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
When you write as an artist, you just tell a story and people say it addresses issues. — John Kani Copy Share Image
I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could. — Lucy Hawking Copy Share Image
Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else:… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves. — William J. Mann Copy Share Image
A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book.… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So… — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
One demonstrable effect this type of work can have is in its viral promulgation. Take Kathy Acker for example: her work exists… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
“Just after the 11 September 2001 attacks, the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk (who later won the Nobel Prize) observed, in Istanbul, the… — Tzvetan Todorov Copy Share Image
“PREFACE This is a book about writing as a spiritual practice. This is not a book about spiritual writing. Spiritual writing—inspirational writing—has… — Rami Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Let us define our terms. A woman who writes her lover four letters a day is not a graphomaniac, she is simply… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I want to create a rapid response team, right around the world, perhaps starting originally with our partners, similar to the one… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I don't read or write SF for cutting edge ideas; I read and write it for the storytelling, and every story is… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that they put advertisements in with your bills now? Like bills aren't distasteful enough, they have to stuff junk… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director. — Karthi Copy Share Image
I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. — Elton John Copy Share Image
I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song? — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
“It’s amazing how fast you can write when there’s a gun to your head.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
I have said before, and shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
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