So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, "alright sucker, now what? ” — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Whenever I write anything, I do sing to it, to try and make sure it's interesting or compelling to sing to. I've… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To the extent that there is anything properly identifiable as dignity in our society today, our present writers of comedy would be… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
“A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Technology writers are seldom subject to frenzied, Beatlemania-esque paroxysms of public attention. June 29, 2007, was the exception. I was in the… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of… — Jane Horrocks Copy Share Image
I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I was interested in writing about gender in this future world where progress has not only halted but turned backward. On another… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I really wanted to write a book [99: Stories of the Game] on the tradition and history of the league, where kids… — Wayne Gretzky Copy Share Image
When I started out on 'Min Kamp', I was so extremely frustrated over my life and my writing. I wanted to write… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I never started learning instruments with the hope of having a career in it. It was more kind of I quite enjoy… — Lapsley Copy Share Image
That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I write books and songs and all sorts of bits and pieces on the side. It's important to have that creative outlet… — Carrie Hope Fletcher Copy Share Image
The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between… — Rachel Gibson Copy Share Image
I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not… — Art Alexakis Copy Share Image
I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the… — Jane Haddam Copy Share Image
My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Other friends have said, "I don't understand why you've used this trumpet-style sound rather than a real one when you know you… — Anna Meredith Copy Share Image
I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be,… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for… — Dornford Yates Copy Share Image
If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
When I was writing this new bunch of songs, I was singing a lot lower, because they were more intimate in a… — John Wesley Harding Copy Share Image
I had always been interested in mythology. I suppose my brief stay in Wales during World War II influenced my writing, too.… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I think what I wanted to do was meet someone who knew more than me about songwriting structure and progressions and middle… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
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I definitely script things out. I definitely write things down and try to write jokes. Often, they're terrible. I often write terrible,… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
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People wanted to know where I was and what I was doing. Was I still recording? Was I touring? Was I putting… — John Waite Copy Share Image
A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
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