Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is…

I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original…

— Colin Firth

We really believe, existing in a climate where comic books and franchises are the order of the day, that new material and writers need…

— Bryan Lourd

Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things were and…

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful…

— Carl Reiner

Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is…

— Donald A. Norman

I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing…

— Dean Young

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

— George Crumb

[Writing something original from scratch], the initial process is way different. But once it exists and you start to actually work on making it…

— Zack Snyder

“I’ve tried to teach my writing friends that there are two arts: number one, getting a thing done; and then, the second great art…

— Ray Bradbury

Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

— Mike Rutherford

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing…

— Carl Hiaasen

As a director you already have a script, you have actors... you have collaborators when you're a director. When you're writing there's no one…

— Ben Younger

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

— Steve Martin

I wrote lots of scripts that never got made and they were terrible. I thought they were good at the time. You can't write…

— Nicole Holofcener