Nobody becomes a writer overnight. Well, I'm sure somebody did, but that person's head probably went all asplodey from paroxysms of joy,… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The… — Kelly Macdonald Copy Share Image
To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“A good book, Marcus, is judged not by it's last words but by the cumulative effect of all the words that have… — Joël Dicker Copy Share Image
You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm always conscious when I'm writing a story that the women in my books need to save themselves. They don't need to… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I'm much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read,… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I've had students at Yale: my main task with them in drama school was not helping them with their writing but showing… — John Guare Copy Share Image
If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The tragic fear and pity may be aroused by the Spectacle; but they may also be aroused by the very structure and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Johnson argued that the most truthful life-writing is when ‘the writer tells his own story’, since only he knows the whole truth… — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump in because… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader… — William Strunk Jr Copy Share Image
We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“When speaking aloud, you punctuate constantly — with body language. Your listener hears commas, dashes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks as… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to… — Danny Jacob Copy Share Image
They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me,… — Anton Bruckner Copy Share Image
The Life Cube Burn is cathartic, fun, exciting, and even reverent. It's a spectacular opportunity to put a sense of finality to… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So,… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I just really like writing and making television shows. There are ego rewards in doing battle with other television programs in prime… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The reason I love comics is that they DON'T move, and there is NO sound. As a creator I have to evoke… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
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