Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
“She hadn’t expected to still be reading it two hours later. Whoever this Kate Perry was, her writing was entertaining.” — Kate Perry Copy Share Image
But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a little kid, I got bored, so I learned to sing, and I started singing lessons. And then… — Troye Sivan Copy Share Image
“Here’s what I say; Someone has to be a rock star; it might as well be you; Someone has to write books;… — Jamie Freveletti Copy Share Image
And the reason I am writing this on the back of a manila envelope now that they have left the train together… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I've been rewritten on past projects and thought, 'That's not what she was - she was this really powerful woman, and there's… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, writing great programs to process it, then giving… — Robert Kyncl Copy Share Image
There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I like to have a tiny bit of fact and then exaggerate it and turn it into something more… — Jorja Smith Copy Share Image
I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
I live in the Village, and the way it's been, people sort of drop in on me and my husband. My husband… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
I've done some acting stuff - a couple of films and other projects. But the thing I've been most passionate about is… — Keeley Hazell Copy Share Image
I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
I was reading fan fiction on Wattpad, but they were taking a little bit to update the stories, so I started writing… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know… — Anthony Mason Copy Share Image
I'd like to get more involved in that world. I'm better when I'm teamed up with an experienced writer - when I… — Jason Biggs Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen… — Becky Sauerbrunn Copy Share Image
Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
“Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
“A writer must write from the heart, that is the only way that for readers to see the passion of our work.” — Cornelius D. Jones Copy Share Image
I just really want be proud of the work I'm doing, whether it's something I've written, produced, or am starring in. I… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
I like writing about people who spend their time trying to help others for the greater good. That's what Americans are supposed… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
