I don't think you can separate a person's "style" and his persona. If you're writing or improvising honestly, you will inevitably reflect… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!),… — Ken Hill Copy Share Image
Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical,… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot of sad songs, and I got to the point where I was like, 'You can't write another… — Dean Lewis Copy Share Image
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
I asked my media teacher, "You can make films out of sequence?" and he was like "Yeah! You can do whatever you… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“Create a guidebook of creative dreams You can use a blank book or just blank paper clipped together. Put photographs or scraps… — Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK Copy Share Image
I'm not patient at all. I avoid writer's block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
“He who has perceived the material out of which the Promethean tragic writers prior to Euripides formed their heroes, and how remote… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be… — Chespirito Copy Share Image
The Bible is to the theologian what nature is to the scientist, a body of unorganized, or only partly organized facts. God… — Henry Clarence Thiessen Copy Share Image
“Intent and dreaming is nice but its not, will never be enough. If you want something bad enough in life then you… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our… — Valerie Miner Copy Share Image
I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to… — Avi Kaplan Copy Share Image
The thing that I hate is that Nicholas Kristof style of writing where it's like, "I saw the poor, they made me… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
“There's a very thin line that separates readers and writers. You make a leap over that line when there’s a book you… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
As an online journalist, newswire journalist, newspaper writer, I wrote every day. My whole thing was, 'I have to write and report… — Om Malik Copy Share Image
When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then… — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about falling in love and why it can't last but that the same time how it lasts forever... — Dawsons Creek Copy Share Image
For me, whatever you write about should be worthy of your attention, worthy of your gifts. That's very important. — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I am not a trained writer and I don't think anyone would accuse me of being a funny person. But I feel… — Vantile Whitfield Copy Share Image
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
It's a tradition that a writer will try to plant his flag in a certain city and protect that. The way to… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Im from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for… — Alex Karpovsky Copy Share Image
My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
