I make up stories in my head all the time, but I've never written them down. But I write a lot of… — Ashley Monroe Copy Share Image
When I was at McGill medical school, there was a writer, Ted Rosenthal, who used to write for the New York Times… — Dafydd Williams Copy Share Image
I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart.… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping… — Elaine Paige Copy Share Image
“It was in this man's class that I first began to wonder if people who wrote fiction were not suffering from some… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
“Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and… — V. Vee Copy Share Image
The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I would prefer that, rather than sitting down and giving someone advice, I would way rather write a song about what I… — Anthony Green Copy Share Image
“Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What thousand words? A thousand words from a lunatic, or a thousand words from… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
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I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Well, I didn't read My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt very carefully. I was away during a lot of that, in the war… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
'The L-Word' was such a great show because of the amazing writing and characters, but maybe because it was such a new… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Around age 18, I decided to start writing my own stuff. I wrote some bad short films and shot them. I tried… — Quentin Dupieux Copy Share Image
In my life there were a lot of situations where I could have been killed or some officer might have been killed… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
I have always had to write songs. As a lifestyle and as a business model, it's pretty difficult. Largely at this point… — Doug Walters Copy Share Image
“Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I'm working on,… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
Some things go better than you expected, other things go worse, so I'm... I think the only sensible thing is just to… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
My writing's like a journey. I'll know some of the stops ahead of time, and I'll make some of those stops and… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
It's always interesting for me to watch the pilot of an established show because you see how the writers and actors weren't… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
“Don't be afraid to write. I think a lot of writers of all ages have a fear that they aren't any good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time… — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you;… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'...My mother… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
I never go to the monitor. I just look at the camera monitor and my favorite part of all of the directing,… — Will Gluck Copy Share Image
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