There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself,… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
Stallone is a great writer. He wrote one of the best screenplays ever written. Rocky. It is one of the biggest classics… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. And that was the real disappointment of the time. You'd see great… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I'm just in profound gratitude that we get to go back and work on a show that we love, with amazing actors… — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness. — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
I remember that the single most vicious letter I ever read was the letter Hemingway wrote Scribners when they asked him to… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch,… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances. — Vanessa Marano Copy Share Image
I see this quality [real interest and joy] in the work of [Pavel] Chekhov, of course, and [Alexei] Tolstoy and really just… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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