I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it. — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
In L.A., we have a saying - 'What do you do?' It's less of a question and more of a self-defense mechanism… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my… — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write. — Mike White Copy Share Image
Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films,… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Too many times, adults walk into situations, and people have already put them in a box: 'Oh, you write comedy.' Or, 'You're… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo.… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach,… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I write every day. It's lovely when that's happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don't even… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place.… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what… — K'naan Copy Share Image
When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts. — Kiesza Copy Share Image
I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient,… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you can write whatever you… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably,… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long… — John Irving Copy Share Image
