It doesn't excite me as a writer to write some swearing or sex scenes, because they don't have any emotional content. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders. — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
“The art is never about what you write about. The art is about how you write about what you write about.” — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the… — Tunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The line of demarcation between history and legend is too thin to observe while writing; the two overlap each other unconsciously and… — Lobsang Tenzin Copy Share Image
One story I've been trying to write for years, and haven't been able to finish, is about a face I saw, just… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up.… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My routine is to create activities for myself unrelated to writing that allow little time for writing. This means that when I… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think the more that I can find myself getting out of the way - like you said yourself - trying to… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
I don't like things to be overcharged, because otherwise everyone starts getting nervous. I try to be very well organized. When I… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
I often write into recipes techniques that I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so… — Sally Schneider Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen… — Roman Coppola Copy Share Image
“Note to myself - It is time for me to start taking my guitar lessons. One of my neighbor's singing and guitar… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I do write all the time about - you tell me what your dreams are. What are you chasing? It's not impossible.… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different… — Allison Mack Copy Share Image
“A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process.” — Rowan Ricardo Phillips Copy Share Image
There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. — James Frey Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form.… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Knowing what you're up against is part of the strength of writing something that is even, I guess, considered halfway original, knowing… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
We write to find out what we didn’t know we knew. We write to know deeper and truer. We write to connect… — Carolyn Coman Copy Share Image
I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
