I was participating in acting and writing for other shows and I knew that eventually I wanted a sitcom of my own. — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
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My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song.… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“There are three elements of good writing: Effect, Eloquence, and Affect. One because economic use of words makes reading easy, another because… — Stephen Hagelin Copy Share Image
You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
“I have always said that whomever has limited preferences cannot be a critic, for the same reason some guy who only likes… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
I don't like to be challenged in the way that often happens, where somebody writes something and then you, as an actor,… — Hugh Dancy Copy Share Image
The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“The writer, Katherine Anne Porter, comments in her Notebooks that “[o]ne of the most disturbing habits of the human mind is its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
When I pick a story, I'm very much aware of the larger issues that it's illuminating. But one of the things that… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is… — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I saw the poet in you when it was obvious that your type of women were all broken and were those who… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I come from a production assistant background. That was my first role on a set before even being an actor, that and… — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
Someone had asked me who I thought was better, John Cena or Rock. I said Rock needs a teleprompter. Rock needs a… — Randy Orton Copy Share Image
I started playing instruments. Writing didn't come until later. I didn't know how to play a keyboard but I'd listen to hits… — Amanda Perez Copy Share Image
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as… — George Michael Copy Share Image
I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I started writing books and making clothes for my dolls when I was around 10 as a way of making my reality… — Kerli Copy Share Image
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
When I'm writing good music and I'm caffeinated, I attribute all my success to the coffee, get really sentimental about the EDM… — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Book reviewer: Very often a writer who has never been published taking out their frustrations on a writer who has.” — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image
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There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them. — Bono Copy Share Image
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
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