It's as simple as finding something on the street and then writing a jingle. If I'm driving and I have my turn… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know,… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
I can only develop a stand-up show by being on stage. I can't write it. Whenever I see comedy written down, it… — John Bishop Copy Share Image
There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life. — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
“When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I write every day for most of the work day, and I try to write 2,500 words per day... If I don't… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
My daughter was five when I was writing 'Minari,' very much close to the age of David. And I was about to… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I write about misuses of evidence in plenty of different spheres: scaremongering journalists, obvious quacks and naturopaths, and flaws in the way… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
When I was doing 'In the Heights,' I was the co-music supervisor for 'The Electric Company' on PBS, so I was writing… — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a… — Kat Edmonson Copy Share Image
When I write I'll sometimes say things which are somewhat controversial - not because I'm seeking out controversy for its own sake,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become.… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in… — Tommy Bolin Copy Share Image
I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“A stickler hallmark is that those who speak or write differently can’t be merely wrong; they must be depraved, too.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell… — Irwin Winkler Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation. ” — Patrick Dennis Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was going to write for TV until I was suddenly writing for TV, so that kind of stuff… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“As the literary critic and writer Leon Wieseltier remarks, “every technology is used before it is completely understood.” — Michael P. Lynch Copy Share Image
Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where… — Margaret Chittenden Copy Share Image
If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I write for the still-fragmented parts in me, trying to bring them together. Whoever can read and use any of this, I… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
You work for a record deal, and you work for writing a record, and you mix and master the record and put… — Uncle Kracker Copy Share Image
