I can sit in the room with the other writers and just keep saying no until there's something I really like or… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
“Each word was shaped with certainty, and I felt, more strongly than ever before in my life, that I had at last… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
I'm a spiritual person, I believe that if you read the bible, you get what you want from it. But, when you… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
“This is important to writing. . . that is, it is important to my own writing. This. . . is landscape! Mine.… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't want to be too personal. If you are, then… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
My abject hatred of actors and the acting world. I went to college as an actor, and halfway through, I switched to… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do;… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
I'm not a tech fan. I don't get that charge that comes from having the new little gizmo in your pocket. Maybe… — Grant Hart Copy Share Image
“It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of original training. Either the work lies… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I am very active on Twitter and one thing that keeps popping up is "How do I balance having a kid and… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
In my journey to becoming an artist who writes, I tend to start my idea process with simple, concrete messages that relate… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
“Turning a friend into a lover, mengubah teman menjadi kekasih, ternyata proses itu menyenangkan. Tapi saat-saat turning back a lover into a… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It seemed like the right time. You reach a point when you say to yourself, ‘Do I want to keep doing this?’… — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“My Caroline, If you’re reading this endnote then I can assume you’ve suffered your way through the story, our story once again.… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
When you're not doing fiction, there's a limit to how much illustrating you can do with your work. I mean, you can… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Anyhow, there simply isnt enough room in the museums Fishes Hall, so weve decided to pretend to the public that a whale… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
Being so pathetic, I don't read. I just ... do things - writing out interviews you can't read, on pictures of footprints… — Peter Beard Copy Share Image
“The prose can be brutally beautiful. But the semester starts, you fall in love, get deflowered, watch Kennedy die and the Beatles… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Whoever desires, for his writings or himself, what none can reasonably contemn, the favour of mankind, must add grace to strength, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The president is supposed to execute faithfully the laws that the legislature has written. So, the executive orders that Barack Obama president… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
I think that the current climate enables a lot of musicians to do relatively well. Twenty-five years ago, you could be a… — Moby Copy Share Image
The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
For every Steven King, there are a dozen guys like me who make a good living. For every David Brin, there are… — David Brin Copy Share Image
And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
The most enjoyable part in writing a series is being able to visit a world I have created and revisit old friends.… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field...… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
Partly because of the way I write - I don't work with an outline or in a straight line. I work where… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
