Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison,… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“What kind of writer are you?” You can’t think of a single sentence that would satisfy Hyong-chol. Your” — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
When you write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about… — Luke Pritchard Copy Share Image
I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but… — John Guare Copy Share Image
You learn every time you write a book, and then you take that new knowledge and experience into the next book. Hopefully,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Wallace Stevens had more time to write as an insurance agent. He was a bond lawyer and I know that insurance company… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
I do get offered a lot more roles than I choose to do. I'm very busy as a producer and a writer,… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“My most important goal as a romance writer is to satisfy readers by creating memorable characters, offering insights on life, and, most… — Laura Abbot Copy Share Image
I have to use all these programs that cut off the internet, force me to be bored, because being bored is an… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
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“...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.” — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
Improv is like writing. It's actually a different discipline to acting. It helps acting greatly, but it's completely different. It's the same… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
If you cant be a pencil to write anyones happiness then try to be a nice eraser to removes anyones sadness.. — Nikkie Copy Share Image
What a frustrating moment it is when you are busy writing a rather long but important articleand you find that your device… — Mohd Aariff Khan Copy Share Image
In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit… — John Green Copy Share Image
Whether it is throwing people under the bus or writing a lie on the side of one: Britain deserves better than Boris… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
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My dream of course, as a writer and a person who's an entertainer, is: Grow up to be Mindy Kaling, don't grow… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures -… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is like washing an elephant. You don't know from where you should start and where you should end.” — Yashvardhan Shukla Copy Share Image
I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women. — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the… — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when… — Chrissy Costanza Copy Share Image
We used to have a genre called Muslim social drama which nobody in the world has. Writers from North India and Bengal… — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.” — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
