I was drawn to painting and filmmaking because I was interested in communicating visually, which spills over into my tendencies as a… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer, and my mother was like, 'No, why don't you become a lawyer?' That sort of thing. — Tom King Copy Share Image
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be… — Desmond Dekker Copy Share Image
Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how… — Jack Jason Copy Share Image
He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I'm generally a very happy guy because I'm doing what I want. I'm willing to tell you that there are people who… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“JUDGE LITTLEFIELD (re: the writ): Cunningham, I do not like it when lawyers go over my head. CUNNINGHAM: You gave me no… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
People often ask how I can reject the phrase 'woman writer' and not reject the phrase 'Jewish writer' - a preposterous question.… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I write pretty fast, probably faster than most people. But I might think about something for six hours, then write it in… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
Please write Narrative Report abut >> An aciedcnt ?please I need it now and it should be 10 lines and be nice… — James Copy Share Image
“Well hello sailor. You are much tastier in reality.” She turned to me. “You’d never make a career as a writer babe,… — Emma L Smith Copy Share Image
When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
It's funny, particularly when you're a writer and you're doing well, you have that sense of like, "Oh! My view of the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you talk about things that move you, that you feel really deep inside you that's something that moves… — David Cage Copy Share Image
Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
I didn't really start writing about the church in earnest until the mid-2000s, so I wasn't present for or a participant in… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends… — Robert Draper Copy Share Image
It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy. — Shelley Long Copy Share Image
I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think [Guettel is] probably one of our most special writers now, pushing things in ways that are unique. — Bartlett Sher Copy Share Image
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image