“And instead of singing in the shower I would write out the lyrics of my favorite songs, the ink would turn the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I think in the 'Deadpool' franchise, the writers are really good at distilling the good stuff and applying that to the material… — David Leitch Copy Share Image
I love the writing of Walter Tevis and what he views as the possibilities of science rather than science fiction. — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise.… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
I don't know why he [Darren Star] is so good at writing for women. Maybe he just likes women. I'm not quite… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
One thing that makes me very happy is to have a complicated idea and to feel that I've expressed myself clearly. I… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“I wish I had eyes that changed colors from blue to gray, and then after I cried, to all the colors of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To me, the producer is there to make sure the album gets done and gets done as good as possible. So if… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet.… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
My son's always saying, 'Pop, I ain't being egotistical, but nobody else can do it like you.' And I say it's not… — Bobby Womack Copy Share Image
Sophie does more of the writing, lyrical stuff; I do more of the sitting at the computer and the board stuff. But… — Tucker Halpern Copy Share Image
I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I've watched 'Ringu' probably three or four times before writing the first draft of 'The Ring.' And then I'd seen 'Ringu 2'… — Ehren Kruger Copy Share Image
I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
I'm a writer, not an actor. I want to write rather than perform. I'm looking forward to disappearing for a while. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom… — Colbie Caillat Copy Share Image
“Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!” — Margarita Gakis Copy Share Image
As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of. — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
I tend to describe recurring themes as being part of a writer's DNA - something so deeply embedded in us that even… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, too, you will then believe that nothing is more wonderful, nothing more fantastic than real life, and that all that a… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.” Charles… — Aaron Council Copy Share Image
So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I always have been introspective, since I was a little kid, since I could remember, I was sitting in a closet trying… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.” — John Green Copy Share Image