I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other. — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
“As with most things, my approach to writing has been entirely ass-backwards. I first had to become everything but a writer --… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching. — Bill Peet Copy Share Image
For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is a peculiar sort of a job," Neil Gaiman once observed. "It's always you versus a blank sheet of… — Jim Denney Copy Share Image
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later,… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“I will quote one sentence from this text, namely, the one with which it ended. It was also the sentence which finally… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I noticed with older songs that I perform that I'm coming from a different place with them now...it mutates the vibe and… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I got a pit bull from a shelter, so my whole life is centered on this dog, and I've been writing a… — Joe Mande Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, it's about surviving and lasting. So many talented people that I've known in my life - directors and writers… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I feel like anytime you write about people in an honest way, you can find connections to any issue you would like. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I like writing with people. I think the times that I've closed myself off to not writing with people, I haven't gotten… — Noah Cyrus Copy Share Image
If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
“Writing can be a lifeline, expecially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially… — Micere Mugo Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all.… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Making your bed could be a piece of art, and writing a book could be a piece of art. You could also… — Matthew Brannon Copy Share Image
“Facing the sagging middle when writing a novel, while inevitable, may be overcome by pre-planning. I divide my collection of proposed scenes… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that? — Siobhan Fahey Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, Erica's talent was acting, his writing, and gauging by her superior smirk, she was a reader, too, and he an open… — Eden Winters Copy Share Image
When I think about the things that cause me pain or the things that cause me trouble or frustration, it's not people… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me… — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es! — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
CBS had originally wanted another actor to play Brad, but the writers and producers convinced them to give me the part instead.… — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
“Writing is rewriting... If you fall in love with the vision you want of your work and not your words, the rewriting… — Nora DeLoach Copy Share Image
Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration. — James Gunn Copy Share Image
