Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I saw the poet in you when it was obvious that your type of women were all broken and were those who… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I come from a production assistant background. That was my first role on a set before even being an actor, that and… — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
I started playing instruments. Writing didn't come until later. I didn't know how to play a keyboard but I'd listen to hits… — Amanda Perez Copy Share Image
Someone had asked me who I thought was better, John Cena or Rock. I said Rock needs a teleprompter. Rock needs a… — Randy Orton Copy Share Image
I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song.… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
When I get into the moment of actually feeling like I want to write, to finish something, I do what I've always… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I relate to what Gov. Romney brings. I know what it means to balance a budget. I know what it means to… — Sher Valenzuela Copy Share Image
“Nothing ever really ends. That’s the horrible part of being in the short-story business—you have to be a real expert on ends.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't use the word lightly, in fact, I don't use it at all, but Ben Marcus is a genius, one of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is… — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
I started writing books and making clothes for my dolls when I was around 10 as a way of making my reality… — Kerli Copy Share Image
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as… — George Michael Copy Share Image
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down… — Phil Coulter Copy Share Image
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so… — Marjorie Fleming Copy Share Image
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“Reading and writing is an escape for me. Where I can imagine and become who I want to be when I want… — Zachary Frerichs Copy Share Image
When I'm writing good music and I'm caffeinated, I attribute all my success to the coffee, get really sentimental about the EDM… — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Book reviewer: Very often a writer who has never been published taking out their frustrations on a writer who has.” — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds'… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them. — Bono Copy Share Image
“When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out… — Richard B. Knight Copy Share Image
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to… — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
