I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It… — Elihu Palmer Copy Share Image
I got jury duty and I didn't want to go, so my friend said, "You should write something really really racist on… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Some of the young kids look for one hit to be a star; that what they're known for the rest of their… — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
“I should have been conceived during Woodstock; it’s in my blood: that burning desire to turn an absolute on its head and… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“I like to synthesize; I hate analysis. I don’t like to take a subject and break it down into parts; I like… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
I've been working on some original songs with the band that does the Led Zeppelin experience. We're going to start writing as… — Jason Bonham Copy Share Image
“So when we say that Christians work from a gospel worldview, it does not mean that they are constantly speaking about Christian… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
At some point, I stumbled across an article about OCD. As I read, I was blown away by how identical the writer's… — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait,… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was 1996 and I was at a crossroads in my career. I had been working in Hollywood as a writer and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
There's never a mistake in the universe. So if your partner is angry, good. If there are things about him that you… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The space where writing happens is a unique space that's hard to define, and when you're kicked out of it because you're… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful,… — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
I think that the biggest, quickest and hardest thing to learn for a writer is that what we think of as the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you're completely and utterly obsessed with. Without… — Jennifer Salaiz Copy Share Image
I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love… — Morris West Copy Share Image
My days are filled with writing, reading, and being a mom. Some days, I get to visit schools around the country and… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
I think anyone who has had a fight and who's a very good observer of the situation and people's behavior is capable… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
“Huddled in her mink in the Kansas City airport, she had a vision of women writing about sex as openly as male… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals -… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase,… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I had some friends commenting me books, but mostly it was people I didn't know. But they're fans. They're fans of the… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry,… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. Baltasar Gracian (Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ (January 8, 1601 – December… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even though it… — Adam Rickitt Copy Share Image
writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Sometimes the director will want you to write about the character, sometimes he'll want you to live in the location that the… — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
A knowledge of craft is not the enemy of creativity. You sit down to write and realize, today's going to be a… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Many writers, including myself, have detailed how irresponsible government actions slow economic recoveries. Similar behavior by individuals impedes growth, too. If you… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
