I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a…

“Write on a screen that has no Internet access.”

— Bruno Heller

At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence.…

— William Ivey Long

I'm a planner, and most networks don't plan. Bravo doesn't plan. Bravo is lucky in a lot of ways - they've got a lot…

— Patti Stanger

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

— Walter Scott

Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

— Ovid

You can be talented, but having great talent isn't enough. You have to work every day or someone will pass you up.

— Frank Gore

To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers.

— Benjamin West

As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.

— Patti Smith

I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving…

— Anonymous

I just don't think I've had the desire yet to write a vicious animal - like a dog-gone-bad or anything - where I do…

— Sara Gruen

I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more…

— Winifred Holtby

A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually…

— Northrop Frye

“[...] as I have seen with other people whose sense of their work is vocational rather than pragmatic, my desire to write, to understand…

— Stephanie Dowrick

"I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim