For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
“Most agree that a useful definition of creative work is that it includes a combination of novelty and value. Creativity requires novelty… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image
I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is a horrible exhausting struggle; one would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I have to write a book that's ten times better than my counterparts, but I do think that I… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You need to know that going in, and you also need to be able to write all the time. So when somebody… — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
Especially as an independent director, when you're writing something on spec and you're trying to get it sold, you create this entire… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
I always thought that I was a terrible writer. And I started to write songs. And I started to like what I… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Because I'm a musician aspiring to write good stuff and put on good shows, I'm hyperaware of what they're doing and what… — Sarah Harmer Copy Share Image
The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and… — Hojo Soun Copy Share Image
You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,'… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system. — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
Usually as an artist I would write relatively within my own playing boundaries. — Michael Tolcher Copy Share Image
“Most inspirational writers were born as driftwood and will say they have been beaten against every shoreline during their life. We understand… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology. — Maddie Hasson Copy Share Image
“Only the living can read. This means that when I write, my target market is people of the future. Greetings, people of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Most of the time, when I'm writing, I'm writing for myself. I'm thinking, 'What will my character say at this time? What… — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here. — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“As far as my characters doing what I want them to, I'm afraid I'm not a real writer like the rest of… — Jessie Chandler Copy Share Image
I think Le Carre is a great modernist writer, which is to say, in a godless world, he invokes deep, almost religious… — David Farr Copy Share Image
