The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight…

She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in…

— Laura Joplin

All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start…

— Eva LaRue

Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be…

— Gordon Willis

Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I…

— Hanif Kureishi

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,…

— Jessamyn West

The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did…

— Gloria Steinem

the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who…

— Richard Cobden

I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how…

— Eric McCormack

One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you…

— Wendy Wasserstein

Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from…

— Mickey Rooney

All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me.

— Andre Holland

A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival…

— Janice Y. K. Lee

This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a…

— E. M. Forster

The craft's occupants clutched their armrests, and more than one of them closed their eyes. But not Artemis. He couldn't. There was something morbidly…

— Eoin Colfer

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

— Ernest Hemingway