I loved writing when I was a kid and thought about being a writer then. But I didn't have the confidence or… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it… — Isaac Brock Copy Share Image
I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I'm a huge advocate… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
You're no longer the engineer or the physicist or the writer - you're the whistleblower. — Susan Fowler Copy Share Image
When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't have the desire to just keep every record and put it out. That's not what I do. I make records… — Rico Love Copy Share Image
I started my professional career before the blogosphere existed in any sort of meaningful way. I think that my approach as a… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer. — John Amos Copy Share Image
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is to write the book that you would want to read, and hope… — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Scott and I had just worked with Jimmy Pardo doing a live show over the summer. And it was a lot of… — B. J. Porter Copy Share Image
I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
My equality rants have been out there so much that people must be getting sick of it, and frankly, so am I,… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
It starts with the writing - which is really, really good. And the production values are phenomenal. HBO and Sky have spent… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am… — Gary Cherone Copy Share Image
People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“Question: You’re 21-years-old, a young adult writing mature adult literary fiction. Imaj: Yes, I feel creativity is an ageless thing.” — Imaj Copy Share Image
Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I never stay with people and I never look people up when I travel. I depend more on just chance meetings. The… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I think it's satisfying for people to feel that that relationship is reciprocal in some way. The truth is, you do have… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over,… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
I think the term "artist's novel" for me has referred to writing which supports an art practice or a more specifically a… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - whats written and not… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross;… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
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I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
They hunt you. It's terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
