Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts. — Larry L. King Copy Share Image
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. — John Steinbeck 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
“You become a great writer by writing lots and lots of stories, not by rewriting the same story over and over again.” — Scott William Carter Copy Share Image
“Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity.” — Chloe Thurlow 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
I always go for just really, hopefully, great writing and great acting, being in the company of great actors. — Paula Malcomson Copy Share Image
“... and Louisa watched another car arriving, this one as unmarked as the cop cars, but more so.” — Mick Herron 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'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
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing… — John Steinbeck 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
Writing is great because in the writing you never have to... First of all you never have to leave your home. And… — Woody Allen 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
“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
“If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great… — John Steinbeck Journal of a Novel - The East of Eden Letters Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented… — Richard Harmon Copy Share Image
I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Things get worse. When Mum is drugged and sad and singing tunes from the Roger Whittaker album every night, that is one… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“My ideas and judgment proceed only gropingly, faltering, tripping, and stumbling; and when I have gone as far as I can, I… — Montaigne Copy Share Image
“He found her seated on her veranda steps, picking grass seeds out of a pair of old khaki army socks. About sixty,… — Garry Disher 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
“What was glimpsed in Aquarius—what was envisioned, believed in, prophesied, predicted, doubted, and forewarned—is made, in Pisces, manifest. Those solitary visions that,… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“On the drive over, Richards kept marveling at the transforming power of having a felony to commit. His brother looked more like… — Robert Roper 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
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing! — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image