I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I definitely prefer directing, hands down. I'm a lazy writer and it wasn't until I got into directing that I now have… — Coley Sohn Copy Share Image
I don't know how you feel, but I feel like writing, clarity of thought, and truth have been validated because we see… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
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A viewer's imagination is a powerful storyteller, and can often come up with things way more frightening than what you can explicitly… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
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“The Writer: [voiceover] I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The most basic definition of a story is 'Somebody wants something and something's in his way,' and I'm more likely to be… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If AOL had ever ordered me to remove a piece of content from the site for any reason, I would have immediately… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
My advice to aspiring actors and writers is that your career's success is totally your responsibility. You need to make it happen.… — Christian Keiber Copy Share Image
What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
If the world allows the people of Darfur to be removed forever from their land and their way of life, then genocide… — Daoud Hari Copy Share Image
If I were to go back to the Philippines, I would probably end up teaching creative writing at a university. I wouldn't… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
I quite like being removed from the industry stuff so that when we're not on tour and we're writing, we're in a… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
There is something eternal in the very nature of writing, as is so graphically illustrated by the scriptures themselves. In a very… — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Harriet Jones: Did you notice when they fart, if you'll pardon the word, it doesn't just smell like a fart, if you'll… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
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From the beginning [of the Lincoln in the Bardo], I actually had it in mind not to write a novel. I'd kind… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
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Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
There are certain writers I can't read when I'm trying to write because their voices are so distinct. Cormac McCarthy, he's the… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day,… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything that I would really baulk at doing on-screen. I don't think so. I've got certain pet peeves… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Much of the writing I do about the female body is to remind women, myself included, that they make life and they… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both parent and child; I am… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
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![“The Writer: [voiceover] I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the summer of 1959-a long time ago, but only if you measure in terms of years. I was living in a small town in Oregon called Castle Rock. There were only twelve hundred and eighty-one people. But…” quote by Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/184/stephen-king-13_first-time_the-writer-voiceover-i-was-12-going-on-1_1318694.jpg)
![“Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for Wilde, the folly of humankind and the (romantic) grandeur of the heroic, lone individual (not unlike Wilde himself); for Nabokov, the possibility of a kind of…” quote by Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93f/joyce-carol-oates-344_ada_of-course-both-oscar-wilde-vladimir-nabo_1242421.jpg)
![“James's critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which are perhaps the last test of a superior intelligence. He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it. [...] In England, ideas run wild and pasture on the…” quote by T.S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68f/t-s-eliot-2-1761_henry-james_james-s-critical-genius-comes-out-most-t_2308204.jpg)
![“From the beginning [of the Lincoln in the Bardo], I actually had it in mind not to write a novel. I'd kind of gotten past that point where I felt bad for never having written a novel, even to where I felt really good about it, like I was a real purist.” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/843/george-saunders-317_books_from-the-beginning-of-the-lincoln-in-the_3136511.jpg)
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