“Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in… — Jessica Soffer Copy Share Image
Someone once busted on me on facebook for liking one of my own posts. Why the hell would I have posted it… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
I'd like to produce. I'd like to come up with ideas and collaborate with people and directors and writers that I like,… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms. — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
I have been very, very fortunate on this show, on 'Suits,' where the writers do come to me, and they ask my… — Gina Torres Copy Share Image
It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.” — Felisberto Hernandez Copy Share Image
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Since my schooldays, I've read the translations of Bengali writers. I'm Punjabi, but I read a lot of Bengali and Urdu literature. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
When I came into films, I found a vacuum in the field of lyricists, writers and composers. — Hamsalekha Copy Share Image
I tell myself that some names can be mistakes, like Mxyplyzyk, a store in New York that lost customers because few could… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca.… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
