When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
I took a clown class at NYU - that's where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best friend. — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
I once had a crush on one of my teachers. I wrote him a love letter and stuck it in a bag… — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
I can write about my culture and religion because I am a product of both. Even when I'm accused of giving ammunition… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
“It's just that some of the people I've met through her, the athletes, the influencers and writers? They all have this same… — Angela Flournoy Copy Share Image
The Chinese traditionally have revered age and longevity - I have one and hope for the other! - so, in Taipei, a… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Once again...Rick Bass draws us into his magical human worlds, rendered urgently by a hypnotic prose that tracks a parallel and untamed… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The whole idea of action being a carrier of information is something that comes directly from theater. That's, in some ways, the… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
There's always a great hue and cry when you sign onto a "remake," and that's always been sort of annoying me and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
I make make music in my own time, messing around with beats and riffs I write. Always practicing performing in my room… — Christina Grimmie Copy Share Image
It's always a treat to have something that lets me explore a different period. I do try to be a stickler, as… — Tom Mison Copy Share Image
It's always hard for a writer to make herself into a character; I had to figure out what my defining characteristics were,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
If you listen to Semi-Precious Weapons' last single, 'Aviation High,' you can definitely hear that even in my old band, even in… — Justin Tranter Copy Share Image
What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
“Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and… — Pamela Erens Copy Share Image
I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Ron doesn't write with me in mind, yet he knows that my singing will always work with whatever he chooses to write. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories. — Bong Joon-ho Copy Share Image
When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television… — Natalie Zea Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be… — Hiromi Uehara Copy Share Image
I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
“...deeper lesson: that the written word isn't necessarily a chore but can be a window into new worlds.” — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
I spend an awful lot of time thinking about stuff that's happened, but I don't want to be someone who's only writing… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
The group of writers I had grown up with in the '60s - Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
