The comedies are not a million laughs on the set. Its business and the dramas are business as well, really. When I'm… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think it can be fun to write about relationships just because so many people can relate to what you are feeling. — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio.… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's… — Lauren Alaina Copy Share Image
I need all of my songs while I'm writing them, because I need to get the stuff out of my body and… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
My ambition in life is to be associated with a good film. And I feel that a writer has a more important… — Sreenivasan Copy Share Image
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
From about the age of 15 or 16 I'd had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I'd done enough… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The thing is, work has simply swamped my whole existence. Slowly but surely it's robbed me of my mother, my wife, and… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“Do not write. I am sad, and want my light put out. Summers in your absence are as dark as a room.… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
One of my favorites is 'Parks and Recreation.' Great show; awesome writing; beautiful, diverse cast. They also have a very diverse writer's… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song. Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
I'm not a tweeter or a Facebooker or a Grammer. I'm a real grump when it comes to technology. I'm like, come… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
there is no 'feminine writing' ... and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something,… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great. — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I… — Sia Copy Share Image
Doctor Who' is the best show to write for, because of the actors and the scale of imagination that it demands. — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
