I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire… — Mike White Copy Share Image
If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Some write that I'm a genius, others say that I'm disrespectful towards their country... If you remember in 1993 I squatted to… — Hristo Stoichkov Copy Share Image
People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to… — Chris LeDoux Copy Share Image
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“If the writer wants to create suspense, or build tension, or make the reader wait and wonder, or join a journey of… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to… — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was 26, so I don't even know what year that was. I wrote a script for me… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I guess you go back to the old writer's adage that when they do your stuff in Hollywood, you smile sweetly upon… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
When I left home, my mum said "Don't forget to write", I thought, "That's unlikely"... It's a basic skill isn't it. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
In my opinion, I feel like all versions of 'Deathstroke' are valid. Just like with 'Black Panther,' I felt like it wasn't… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“A writer will seal his own coffin, And the interests of readers will soften, If the author insists On the usual twists,… — Mark Grenier Copy Share Image
I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs. — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what… — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
When writing, I model all the heroes after myself. Of course, it's hard to make them quite as wonderful as I am,… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“You don't need to know how a story ends, but how it begins. Start writing ...and the rest of the story will… — Jason W. Blair Copy Share Image
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot… — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
