“A finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read. — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to,… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
Even with a small video we will always be able to do a small movie with friends and to show it to… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest… — Alan Ayckbourn Copy Share Image
Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
In Dogen's writing, the practical instruction, philosophy and poetry are together in one voice. People hear about his poetry, go to his… — Kazuaki Tanahashi Copy Share Image
Back in the late '90s, a writer named Daniel Handler decided that kids books were too cheerful. I mean, all the "Harry… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between… — Margaret Edson Copy Share Image
I have a song called "Men." I mean, manhood and trying to be one, and failing as one, and trying to be… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink. — Plato Copy Share Image
I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television,… — Derek Luke Copy Share Image
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The Globes are voted for by anyone in L.A. who's ever written for a foreign newspaper or magazine. That means, like, Romanian… — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
There's a great legacy before me. Many, many fantastic actors, artists, writers have come before me and created Superman. I'm very honored… — Brandon Routh Copy Share Image
There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity. — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
My theory is that in the age of the internet, it's what you write, not where you write it, that matters. — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
I think it helps the writers to sell their books, if they announce my attachment, but it doesn't mean that I'm going… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I write R-rated action dramas, and every year that goes by, that gets to be a smaller and smaller world you have… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms… — Peter York Copy Share Image
“I wrote that book anyhow, because I needed to write it for my own intimate purposes - and also because I was… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am constantly trying to figure things out, and writing and decompressing is a way for me to analyze and try and… — Erin Willett Copy Share Image
When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Write about us,” Robinson urged. “Tell our story.” And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands.” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I will be moving to London to reinvent my whole identity the way Alice (Jane Jones) did in the movie, Closer. — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God,… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
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