With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast… — James Gray Copy Share Image
A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst… — Lucy Prebble Copy Share Image
“But even so I can't stop writing even for a day--I'm doing it to save my life. These letters're the first time… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can't help himself. You're talking to him and all of a sudden, you… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I do not consciously reclaim. I am not those "some readers" and so I think it would be impossible for me to… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
“For me, if I have writer’s block it means I know that what I am writing is not working quite right and… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
“J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“ Dialogue Should Move the Story Forward, Provide Information, or Enhance Characterization, Unless You’re Really Witty The best dialogue can do all… — Anne Marble Copy Share Image
I would say that the majority of the people I work with are Swedish, very unknown producers and writers but so talented. — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper. — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I read the 'Harry Potter' books as I was writing my own books, and I love them, but I don't think Harry… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do,… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
When I got home from The Ozzfest in September 2000 with Methods... I just locked myself in my house and I started writing. — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think. — Stephen Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When she's asleep, I go over there and write misspelled words on them. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft,… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
I just feel that if I'm English and writing about an American president, I have got to have someone on my side… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
