I just love film making; all aspects of it. I love the idea of writing but I just don't feel like I… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
I went to Columbia film school; that's where I met Matthew Weisman. We then became writing partners, graduated, and moved out to… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
People often give Biden a pass for inaccurate and misleading statements - writing them off as nothing more than Crazy Uncle Joe… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“Your past has already been written and the words cannot be changed, but your future is waiting to be written; make it… — Abigail Landsbrook Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational. — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
You know, writing isn't easy. It's tedious. Ideas have a gestation period, and after a while, it becomes difficult. — Rajiv Menon Copy Share Image
“In 1991, while talking with writer Ed Gross, Fred Freiberger summed up his agony over Star Trek with a joke, saying, “I… — Marc Cushman Copy Share Image
I always, at least back then, struggled with emotion in writing. I felt like I could do odd, unusual things, but there… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“It's the living that turn and chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, the initial page, always crucial, passed every test, with its promises and divisions, its portentous opening paragraph like the great door… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I like to write paper mail...nobody does that anymore...with my pen pals. John Doe from the band X played my dad on… — Hilarie Burton Copy Share Image
We all have a tendency to over generalize our individual experiences. After I've published something, I'll meet someone who says, "I'm Haitian,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me. — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
When I write songs, it happens very quickly, sometimes 10 to 15 minutes, and I draw inspiration from everything. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
“He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic… — César Aira Copy Share Image
“A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when… — Barbara Park Copy Share Image
When I'm fishing, I feel guilty that I'm not writing, and when I'm writing, I feel guilty that I'm not fishing. But… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I dreamed of becoming a writer. And this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director… — Lauren Ashley Carter Copy Share Image
“I had a dream about you last night. I was writing a ‘Sex for dummies-Christians That Secretly What to be Porn Stars-… — Crystal Hudson Copy Share Image
A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
I'm also on the Board at Sundance, so I've seen witnessed first hand the power of independent storytelling. — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
“If we are exhorted to play simple melodies with beauty rather than difficult ones with error, the same should be applied to… — Sonia Rumzi Copy Share Image
I wrote about the Serbs, because no one was writing about them, even if I also think about the Croat and Muslim… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Back in the fifties (the nineteen fifties, not the eighteen fifties) I did some writing for Mad Magazine, along with my friend… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
Ive really written my books for my husband and our family. Theyve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“...you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Real science is the greatest, most exciting springboard I have available to me as a writer, and I don't feel the least… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image