In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser. Well, let’s talk Algeria then. Let’s talk about your… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately. — Laila Robins Copy Share Image
The writers are the backbone in television, like in film, but eventually, as an actress, I can bring something. — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
To all the staff members that take care of us every single day, From Donnie Strack, to Joe Sharpe, Tony Katz, Dave… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
I used to write songs that mimicked other songs that I would hear as a kid, cos I was 12 years old… — Justin Nozuka Copy Share Image
In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“As a fantasist, I well understand the power of escapism, particularly as relates to romance. But when so many stories aimed at… — Foz Meadows Copy Share Image
Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same… — Douglas Lenat Copy Share Image
The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus,… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I do shodo magic,” Dali said. “I curse through calligraphy. I have to write the curse out on a piece of paper… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
That's what I like about musical theater, is that it's very collaborative, not just with the writers, but with the director and… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the… — Jennifer Westfeldt Copy Share Image
The combination of us two was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. You meet someone, and you just work, you have chemistry on stage, and… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
During the writing of all of my books, I've learned that, most of all, people want to know that someone is listening… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other. — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell… — Celia Johnson Copy Share Image
“She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know… — Sharon O'Brien Copy Share Image
Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see… — Marty Robbins Copy Share Image
I've said very openly that the first aspect of my artistry to arrive was writing. It took me a good number of… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“One of my challenges [as a writer] is to make sure that I'm giving the reader details that the character cares about… — Jessica Andersen Copy Share Image
Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
“This is the first letter I have ever written. That a few marks on this piece of paper can bring you my… — Clay Griffith Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.” — Adewale Joel Copy Share Image
I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a… — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten. — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I first watched 'Little Mom,' I was really struck by the universal things it said about motherhood. You could tell these… — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
E-mail also changed things in that you don't have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an… — Steve Crocker Copy Share Image
![“I used to write songs that mimicked other songs that I would hear as a kid, cos I was 12 years old when I was writing those, right. And you hear a radio so all I'd write about was [sings] "hey girl, look at you", you know what I mean. I think that even doing that made it easier for me to write…” quote by Justin Nozuka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/756/justin-nozuka-16476_easier_i-used-to-write-songs-that-mimicked-othe_208071.jpg)
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