Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Remember this: a simple pen is much more swift and much more precise than a camera. That's my advice to both beginning… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
I love writing. I love getting lost in creative projects when I'm going through a tough transition in life. I always keep… — Melanie Iglesias Copy Share Image
At the time, I was in L.A., just auditioning and hoping to land a part, dramatic or comedic. I started to feel… — Nasim Pedrad Copy Share Image
“You should be extending your stay among writers whose genius is unquestionable, deriving constant nourishment from them if you wish to gain… — Denise Gigante Copy Share Image
My mom never went to college, so she just assumed the writer identity, and that was always really inspiring to me. It's… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I can work a lot faster when I'm writing a screenplay than when I'm writing a play because, if I'm having a… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To tell you the truth, though, I still haven't made up my mind whether I shall publish at all. Tastes differ so… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
The question now becomes about defining your terms. What is literature? Unless we allow it to encompass the oral tradition from which… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
“An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you… — Elaine Orr Copy Share Image
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Television is a completely different industry now. It's just extraordinary. It's so wonderful, because there's more interesting product. It attracts the best… — Jean Smart Copy Share Image
Simply put, meta-writing is writing that is self-conscious, self-reflective, and aware of itself as an artifice. The writer is aware she's writing,… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
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I write about what I know and what I've experienced. That's the only way it can be real to me. I love… — Aaron Tippin Copy Share Image
I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
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You're young forever when you write. Alfred Hitchcock directed until the day he died. As long as you don't have any dementia… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
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What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever.… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
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I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island,… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to… — Ketzel Levine Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be used by God in big ways. I always prayed He would trust me enough to use… — Kay Robertson Copy Share Image
To really get to know people and discover humanity, which is what I truly think writers and actors do, you've got to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
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