Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I was always cutting words. I even would write my jokes in my notebook. I still do this, almost like a poem. — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get… — Sevyn Streeter Copy Share Image
I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I've written about women's lives, and I just want to write about them from being a woman. I don't need feminism on… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Your problem, dear chap, as I have had occassion to remind you, is that you see but you do not observe; you… — Edward B. Hanna Copy Share Image
Some of the things I love the most are when a writer or a visionary takes on sort of an iconic character… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
“I was an I, an opera of feeling with a very small audience, a writer of articles about culture but with no… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
The endeavor of being a foreign correspondent means that you will never be their equal. And that has its pros and cons.… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Sometimes you run out of ideas, just like if you are a writer or whatever. Then you just have to wait around… — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
I don't really read Stephen King - I just can't read scary things because it stays with me too long - but… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
“I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll… — Kia Carrington-Russell Copy Share Image
I write a lot of my own music. I usually go in with a producer, and every now and then there will… — Loren Gray Copy Share Image
I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I've been singing love songs since I was a toddler, I was singing Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and even Alicia Keys song,… — Gabriella Wilson Copy Share Image
It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I am a gay writer, but I am also a Scottish writer and some days a lazy writer, or a funny writer.… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
Hasn't everyone written a leave letter while at school? Or sent a text message? There is a writer in all of us. — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek… — Derrek Lee Copy Share Image
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard. — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
“What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.” — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“I wake up knowing that there is hope and patience. Every morning I wake up, I surrender myself to the Beautiful universe… — Jawed 's Copy Share Image
I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
