All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.

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