I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter.… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
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“i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words,… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write 'August Osage County.' It… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is… — John Green Copy Share Image
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There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s,… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
The way to start writing isn't by writing at all. But by living. It isn't about creating something from thin air, but… — Yasmin Ahmad Copy Share Image
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To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
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Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
The smartest thing I've done for my kids is writing a song about a holiday. Every year after that, even after I'm… — Shooter Jennings Copy Share Image
Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
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I'm actually quite critical of the storytelling theme. I think all the storytellers are not storytellers. — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
I have been writing about Hillary Clinton, I just actually looked this up, since 1998 when she was busy standing by when… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
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