Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a writer, from having an original… — Roberto Orci Copy Share Image
The thing I love about theater is the fact that everyone's complicit. We're either there as a storyteller, or we're there as… — Sarah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said 'do this' and… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn,… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
I write very much from what I want to see, and the hardest projects are projects where you lose track of that. — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“People deserve real reports, real numbers, and real thoughts. Even if it means swimming against the tide.” — HAZEM ABDELMOWLA Copy Share Image
I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
“Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
When I start to write and record a track, I always think about where it is supposed to take place, what kind… — Karin Dreijer Andersson Copy Share Image
If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
We stopped right in the center and I just stared at how beautiful the summer sky looked. Stark tugged on my arm… — Jade Copy Share Image
“I'm more interested in becoming a commercial writer, and unfortunately, commentary on my writing from a bunch of other unpublished writers is… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
A lot of writers tired of doing kind of hip, slick, funny, dark, exploding hypocrisy, underlining once again the point that life… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I advised Chambers, and would advise every young man beginning to compose, to do it as fast as he can, to get… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books. — Nancy Etchemendy Copy Share Image
It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes! — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
But a huge part of being a writer is discovering your own intellectual and aesthetic autonomy, and how you best get the… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I do think there's a lot of bad writing, and I worry about that in philosophy. I worry about it even more… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“P.S. It's not schizophrenia, it's creativity, there is a difference. My voices go away after I let them tell their stories.” — Ashley Newell Copy Share Image
[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don't mean that you can't also be funny, or have fun, but at the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility. — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
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