When I saw how much the message of the song resonated with people I began to realize we're all on the same… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates; Einstein formulating a theory of relativity; the housewife devising a… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“Writing is an effort at truth telling, but each person’s version of truth and his or her means of conveying it are… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems that for nineteenth-century Russian writers, food was what landscape (or maybe class?) was for the English. Or war for… — Anya von Bremzen Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to tell you is that there are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
Writing and acting are almost diametrically opposed in terms of being an actor it's in your interest to be in shape and… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
They always say, doing what I do for a living, write what you know and then people will respond to it. I… — Dan Fogelman Copy Share Image
It occurs to me as I write that this "white light," usually presented dippily (evidence of afterlife, higher power), is in fact… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I’ll abide by my word, but you will never win me back! Believe me, in two weeks I will slice open your… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
For a moment there I convinced myself I had my back against a wall, and suddenly the only wall I find my… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that… — John Green Copy Share Image
If I'm given the opportunity of writing, directing and acting in the same film I would love to do it again. It's… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
I've been exploring a lot of different avenues with a number of very different and very, very exciting filmmakers and writers. That's… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Muddiness is not merely a disturber of prose, it is also a destroyer of life, of hope: death on the highway caused… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
Work extra hard on the beginning of your story, so it snares reader's instantly. And know how you're going to end your… — Joan Lowery Nixon Copy Share Image
I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
The quality of writing attracts me to films, also who the other actors are, who the director is, where it's being shot.… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
I don't think that if I had spent the time that I was in, say, Belgrade, writing about my time in Trieste,… — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're completely at the mercy of other people. You basically go begging for the opportunity to work. As a… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
I think theres just this mystique of writing a book that appeals to people. A person has to really check their motives… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think the benefit of being a writer is that I'm looking for the subtext on the page, because all good writing… — Richard Dormer Copy Share Image
You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think people like Lena Dunham really opened up the door to what was possible, and they've inspired young women to go… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Every writer has to find the thing to keep her eye on about which she has strong opinions. That's of course deeply… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom,… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
