Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Damn, Easy,” the intrepid sideman said. “Trouble got your name tattooed on the inside’a his eyelids. He be studyin’ you in his… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I love great writing. I like interesting characters. I like to work with people who push me to be better, to elevate… — Julie Ann Emery Copy Share Image
“That spike of terror went through me again. He was like a raptor, not cruel, not good or evil, only and utterly… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I always go for just really, hopefully, great writing and great acting, being in the company of great actors. — Paula Malcomson Copy Share Image
“This was the place that shaped Arthur, this backwater, where the deep British past persisted the way scraps of winter snow last… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Avril had the sense they say comes with your last moments; not so much that she saw her life flashing before her… — Mick Herron Copy Share Image
“I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Working with people you adore and love. There's just a sense, all the way through all of the movies [Planet of Apes],… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To… — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
To me, great writing - and when you can really make something wonderful out of it as an actor - is when… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
First of all, anything Ryan Murphy is a part of is a good idea to be a part of. He's got just… — Mark Salling Copy Share Image
“Accepting "I'm Bad too" is a Great and Beautiful Maturity so far.” — Pradip Bendkule Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing! — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The dangerous pileup of modifiers is a hallmark of Joel's rhetorical style.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts. — Larry L. King Copy Share Image
“We should…” Dawes chewed the inside of her cheek as if she’d stored words there for winter. “We should be prepared for… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“It is very important to accept your own darkness when you want to grow in the light.” — Pradip Bendkule Copy Share Image
“I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down." [ Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones , August 8, 1839]” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly. — Scott Speedman Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great… — Matt Lauria Copy Share Image
Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
“...-compost is trucked in; some crops also receive fish emulsion along with their water and a side dressing of pelleted chicken manure.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image