I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job. — Dermot Mulroney Copy Share Image
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I try to minimize the noise, and I don't use Facebook except for my fan page, and I don't look at anything.… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
If you read a part that you want to play, and you already know you have actors you want to work with… — Jerry Bruckheimer Copy Share Image
I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in:… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
A 'lewk' is like, 'I'm wearing a lewk today,' it's something that everybody will notice. It's like you're out of the pages… — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
By studying the Bible one can at best know about God. There is a vast difference between knowing God and knowing about… — Tommy Tenney Copy Share Image
I read a ton of scripts. I read a lot of scripts, and you read one, and first of all, you felt… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving... — William Francis Henry King Copy Share Image
How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Moon In the Window I wish I could say I was the kind of child who watched the moon from her window,… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I get very tense working, so I often have to get up and wander around the house. It is very bad on… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
How can we call ourselves a church and not believe in healing and in miracles? I cannot read four pages anywhere in… — T.L. Osborn Copy Share Image
It sometimes is better to write in a more directed, focused way when the pages are aimed at something already, a mission… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
