My feelings are, if you're gonna lead a rock n' roll lifestyle, don't let it affect your work. I know I can… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
“The only private language I know is self-exaggeration. I think I've grown a second self in this room. It's the self-important fool… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
“The most difficult speculation for a science fiction writer to undertake is to imagine correctly the *secondary* implications of a new factor.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Yet entertainment--as I define it, pleasure and all--remains the only sure means we have of bridging, or at least of feeling as… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
With winning the Baftas - with the writing one in particular - it was like, 'What? Writing? I'm not a writer. I… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
“I hear you don't write any more," he says... "Not true," I inform him. "You should see the margins of my student… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors,… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Julian Fellowes doesn't come to the set, except maybe once every six weeks, for whatever reason. He's not a producer, in that… — Hugh Bonneville Copy Share Image
One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was… — Alan Thicke Copy Share Image
In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
I do write to be loved; I speak so that I am loved; I work for love; I live with others so… — Angeles Mastretta Copy Share Image
I first read Freud's famous case study on hysteria based on his client Ida Bauer when I was in my twenties. It… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I remember when my daughter was twelve, suddenly a boy started hanging out in front of our house after school. It was… — Cinco Paul Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a story catches your imagination so much it has to be told. That is what I love about writing. It lets… — S.E. Smith Copy Share Image
If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When… — Joel Chandler Harris Copy Share Image
I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
P.S. Nothing personal, but I think this journal assignment is a waste of time. I know I have to do something to… — Kate Klise Copy Share Image
“This time it was the sentence opening the last part of a story I had worked on for months: a sentence as… — Louis Zukofsky Copy Share Image
Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Obviously, growing up in France, I had foie gras probably when I was two years old. Writing about it and understanding what's… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or… — kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Do you know my absolute favorite story about the author of The Age of Innocence ? It’s that she did all of… — Jennifer Wright Copy Share Image
Since my romance novels had all been thrillers as well, it wasn't such a leap for me to move into the straight… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile… — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
If the poem is so moving that even if you have no experience in that particular setting be it 1920's Harlem let's… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“No, writing has not changed me for the better at all; I have merely used up part of my restless, conscienceless youth.… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
