I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I do, and he… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
The wise screen writer is he who wears his second-best suit, artistically speaking, and doesn't take things too much to heart. He… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
If I waited to be inspired to go to the gym, I'd never get there. I schedule my exercise time; I schedule… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing.… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Part of why I have started writing about love is feeling that our culture is forgetting what Martin Luther King taught. We… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Everyone’s life is an evolution of emotions, spirit and beliefs. The storyline changes, plots thicken, main characters mature and new spiritual journeys… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The "executive producer" title either means that you're the person who created, or co-created, the show, or you're the person who's in… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
Most visual artists, just like most writers, tend to be solitary. While they're doing the art, that is. They may have a… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I was curious. Here was a character where I just didn't know how they were going to write him into 13 episodes… — Shawn Hatosy Copy Share Image
It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works,… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
“Ivanov's fear was of a literary nature. That is, it was the fear that afflicts most citizens who, one fine (or dark)… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I read the reviews sometimes, but I don't let it really affect the next album because, for me, when I approach an… — Chelsea Wolfe Copy Share Image
Directing, to me, starts even before we get to the set. Directing is a fluid, an abstract thing. It's not done only… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
Often poetry, especially the sort of poetry I write, is concerned with looking at the borders between the sensual and the spiritual… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“I was afraid to become a writer. I didn't think I had the ability - it was too big a thing. Who… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it.… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Very often I'm told that my heart's cold. That I'm the type to let my eyes speak what my mouth won't. That… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American,… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The music business has changed so much. Collaborations are all over the Internet. The young people are keeping the old school alive.… — Dutch Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Without entering here into a dissertation upon the historical romance, it may be said that in proper hands it has been and… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“My least favorite received idea about writing is that one must find one's voice, as if it's there inside you, ready to… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I noticed the different kids were always put down by other people and it would cause them to become almost violent with… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
...remember the dangers of the New Groupthink. If it's creativity you're after, ask your employees to solve problems alone before sharing their… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only… — Joanna Murray-Smith Copy Share Image
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Виж какво, седнеш ли да пишеш, винаги гледай да се сещаш, че преди да станеш писател, дълго време си бил читател. Запечатал… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
If Fobbit leaves a reader feeling stranded in some bland in-between territory, then I haven't done my job. But having said all… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
“Art has a noble task: to educate man. That's why the writer's part in our society is a most responsible one. The… — slawomir mrozek Copy Share Image
The challenge in writing the songs for The Aristocats truly fell on the animators & director of the film. Robert & I… — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four,… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance… — Gbenga Akinnagbe Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever intended specifically to write for the young adult market. It's just that when the idea for City… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
