My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies.… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I really don't try to force the creative process. I'm really jealous of those other rappers who just hear a beat and… — Alexander Spit Copy Share Image
I do not believe that God intended the study of theology to be dry and boring. Theology is the study of God… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
I do enjoy having researchers and writers around me because I am getting a lot of different influences now from the opposite… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Every story you've read, play you've seen, every movie and every television show, every poem you've heard and every song... All came… — DS Kenn Copy Share Image
I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened… — Kay Cannon Copy Share Image
I go back and research, say, every reference to the Gorgons, and I find what the classical writers said about them and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Hope, to me, is wishing for something good to be true. I believe it is inherent in all of mankind to hope,… — Reese Roper Copy Share Image
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
No, my favorite scene was Brienne finding Arya and The Hound. I thought that the writing and the dialogue and the confusion… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
“A novel is something that stands at the end of a lengthy process called writing. It is not a preexisting Platonic form… — Victoria Nelson Copy Share Image
I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I'm vegan, though not completely religious about it. While writing 'Sapiens,' I became familiar with how we treat animals in the meat… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Several years ago, as I was transitioning from film finance to film production and writing again, someone asked me how long I… — Gabriel Campisi Copy Share Image
“What do I want to be when I grow up? An attractive role would be that of the bunjin. He is the… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present. Ironically enough, by focusing on your presidency, it… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Keep at something even when you don't feel inspired. Don't wait for inspiration! I write a lot of songs that are terrible,… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
“I sat at the bottom of the garden, and I wrote the last page of my book, and I knew that I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can't notate that. You can't… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I've seen people around me write books, and somehow they're always in the center of everything that happened; they were the one… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer, I… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . .… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When I came to New York, I told everyone I was a writer/director, and they said, 'No.' There was a rule. You… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm disciplined, that I work… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
“I stopped typing and started having a conversation about the blog post with my boyfriend. He said he’d liked the part where… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
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I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
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