I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where… — Alex Gansa Copy Share Image
I sometimes think I should write a book. I've seen some things, you know, but it's all there in the songs. — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
The tricky thing about fast raps is not really the delivery of them; it's the writing of them, with consonants close enough… — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Ewan McGregor is a very genial and entertaining man, and Pierce Brosnan is possibly the nicest man in the world. Actually, it… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Writing a part with the talents of a particular actor in mind is the method most likely to result in ephemeral plays:… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
“Every Monday, we have to write about what we did at the weekend.” It didn’t appear that her mother understood the agony… — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A… — Anne Archer Copy Share Image
As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
Darius has on jeans with a button up flannel shirt, that is not buttoned up! Dallas is in boxers! Cute black and… — Jade Copy Share Image
I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing. — Mavis Staples Copy Share Image
I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about.… — Adam Brody Copy Share Image
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
You can't say, I won't write today because that excuse will extend into several days, then several months, then... you are not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that, when [meeting of writer and reader] happens and the reader goes out into the world the next day, there's… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in… — Steven Runciman Copy Share Image
I keep boxes filled with recuerdos - little memories that are in the form of pictures and events that I've written down.… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
All I can say, being young people being in a band, writing songs that we felt were great... we never felt that… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
During the '80s, Nashville didn't believe women were songwriters and performers. It was an unfortunate thing, because I love writing songs. — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
When we created 'Goodness Gracious Me,' it was quoting 'Python' and Woody Allen lines that really bonded the writers, and the 'Spamalot'… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
Comics writing is for your artist. It's not for the general reader; it's for the artist. So I love writing scripts for… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
Most writers, I'm afraid, live very boring lives sitting in front of a screen. However, having said that: every writer puts a… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The less attractive the character, the more I enjoyed writing them. Officious bureaucrats and PowerPoint weasels are where it's at for me. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of… — Horace Copy Share Image
“The irony of writing is that it's a solitary profession in which the lone writer tries to address universal human concerns.” — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
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