I've often said, not totally jokingly, that screenwriting…

Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.

— Galen Rowell

“Just like a painter’s brush or a sculptor’s chisel, you camera is a tool to create artwork. The camera does not take the photo,…

— Barbara Steinhoff Schneider

And yet, in a superficial sense, it is true that the camera does not "lie": given a chance, it will faithfully render everything within…

— Andreas Feininger

In the theater, you have to speak so people in the last row of the peanut gallery can hear you. With television, the camera…

— Merle Dandridge

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of…

— Susan Sontag

A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a…

— Ansel Adams

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is…

— Lee Friedlander

Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how…

— Garry Winogrand

I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to…

— Jonathan Raymond

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It…

— Man Ray

“The genesis of my interest in being a writer can be traced to fourth grade when we listened to a radio production of Shakespeare's…

— Laura Abbot

Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

There are millions of people who think that romance isn't real writing. But the only person who can make you real, make your books…

— Sylvia Day

I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make…

— Brian Evenson