Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen.… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment. — George Osborne Copy Share Image
I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Who hasn’t grown up knowing the bitchy cheerleader, a dumb jock, the computer nerd, an overbearing mother, a distant father, a misunderstood… — Karen Wojcik Berner Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Do not be influenced by the importance of the writer, and whether his learning be great or small, but let the love… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction,… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
I think my music being referred to as "cinematic" has a lot to do with people just not being used to listening… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be done but by inches. I write out my life hour by hour, word by word . . . imagining… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process. — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
Obviously this all gets tricky/complicated when your writing reveals so much of your private/intimate life, and the nature of writing on the… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
“Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“in writing like this, he was letting truth from beyond time into history, and thus making history the handmaid of posterity and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Yippee. I’ve been promoted from fire lighter to delivery boy. I’ll write a letter home to Mother. She’ll be so pleased.” — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I've been involved in burlesque for a really long time and I've always been really interested in burlesque, and I was writing… — Steve Antin Copy Share Image
I lost the power to write and I had to sort of relearn how to read and write to a certain extent… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
“Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of… — Nick Lachey Copy Share Image
The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
“I Don't Write Because God Gives Me A Fresh Word Everyday, I write Because of The Words He Has Already Spoken Yesterday… — The Prolific Penman Copy Share Image
I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
“The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write… — Bettie Page Copy Share Image
I think that I'm going to write a bigger thing, and then I end up writing about people, and the bigger thing… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count. — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
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