Anyone who writes anything on any subject is standing on the shoulders of 900 people who've come before you. — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs… — James Gray Copy Share Image
There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point,… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“She'll take my breath, she'll take my bones, but she cannot have my epitaph. For if indeed I truly am a writer,… — Anne Schilde Copy Share Image
The actual materials are important... A book at the nightstand is important-a light you can get at-or a flashlight as Kerouac had… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing… — Kyle Dunnigan Copy Share Image
“There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of her detectives to take Jewishness as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul,… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“for the most part, I rarely look at the journals I have kept for the greater part of a lifetime. The act… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My favorite thing to do is action-driven, emotionally-charged scenes. If it's not just two people talking in a room, but it's on… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
“So they were pen pals now, Emma composing long, intense letters crammed with jokes and underlining, forced banter and barely concealed longing;… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I have a sign on my door. I look at it every single day of the week. The sign says, "Attitude is… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins,… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull.… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
We do say no to a lot, but we also say yes; I find ways of coming to peace with certain things.… — Alex Scally Copy Share Image
You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as… — George Michael Copy Share Image
Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
I started writing books and making clothes for my dolls when I was around 10 as a way of making my reality… — Kerli Copy Share Image
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song.… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is… — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I saw the poet in you when it was obvious that your type of women were all broken and were those who… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I come from a production assistant background. That was my first role on a set before even being an actor, that and… — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
I started playing instruments. Writing didn't come until later. I didn't know how to play a keyboard but I'd listen to hits… — Amanda Perez Copy Share Image
Someone had asked me who I thought was better, John Cena or Rock. I said Rock needs a teleprompter. Rock needs a… — Randy Orton Copy Share Image
In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst.… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
