When I get a new script, I write a record of how many costume and make-up changes I have. I cross-check them… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
If you've ever had your heart broken, it's like, once is enough - you can live a lifetime on that. Ya know?… — Jessie Baylin Copy Share Image
I just write what I write, produce the music I produce and try to give myself a chance to stay true to… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
I read and write but my ideas don't go beyond the first draft. When they will, I will make it into a… — Antara Mali Copy Share Image
It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, 'Yeah, songwritin' man,' looking wistful.… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Many people don't have an outlet for their feelings or how they can express life and not everybody in a relationship is… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book… — Matthew Reilly Copy Share Image
Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What are your drawn to?" ... "Language, Words, No, not teaching. Perhaps one day I'll write something.” — Ellen Sussman Copy Share Image
I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you're just in one mood. I was told I needed to write… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd… — Elton John Copy Share Image
I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I don't listen to music when I write. If I do, I usually end up giving it my whole attention, which means,… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I've lived a lot since I was 16, so I've got more things to write about. I've started playing around the world… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it!… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I actually have, in all seriousness, in the back of my mind someday to write a book, the title of which would… — Joshua Malina Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it. — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
