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
It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe. — Gale Anne Hurd Copy Share Image
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and it is still home to me. My writing has taken me all over… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Write your own music and write frequently. Go to as many live shows as you can as well (of bands you enjoy… — Dia Frampton Copy Share Image
We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“It was then that I saw the business of writing for what it truly was and is to me. It is your… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“Which story do you want to hear my child?"he picked him up and made him sit on his lap. "Tell us the… — Chitralekha Paul Copy Share Image
Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music,… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
“I write because there is nothing as joyful as writing, even when the writing is twisted and full of hate, the self-hate… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was so lucky that I got to meet certain people. It came through Roddy McDowall, who had become a photographer and… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your… — Eddie Cahill Copy Share Image
You have to ensure box office returns for someone to place confidence in you and make content with you, whether you are… — Arjun Mathur Copy Share Image
I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a… — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“you could live in the other wonderful world the Russian writers were giving you. At first there were the Russians; then there… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear -… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators. — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed… — Paolo Maldini Copy Share Image
If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone. — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
“I don’t get writer's block because I don’t believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
It is horrible to sit in front of the keyboard and write those scenes because you're losing too. You lose somebody you… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like… — Kathleen Winsor Copy Share Image
