If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who do not write for money.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write. — Philip Kan Gotanda Copy Share Image
The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now." — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
Lots of my friends and family belong to churches, and some of them are part of the so-called Christian Right. In this… — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly. — Robin Tunney Copy Share Image
It [The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture,… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well.… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Remember, acting is not a business of glamour. It is science, craft and an art. Read about acting; don't do it for… — Boman Irani Copy Share Image
I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile, They will, they will not; fools that on them trust; For in their… — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
There's a lot of craft in songwriting. The divine inspiration is when the idea comes. It may be a riff. It may… — John Oates Copy Share Image
You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image