My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life. — Faye Dunaway Copy Share Image
Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture. — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us. — John Deacon Copy Share Image
I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
I think I'll be Scottish in every movie I write. They always try to talk me out of it, but Woody Allen… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
Comics publishers are used to looking in a very, very narrow focused prism. It's like when I started writing 'X-Men.' Our 'meat… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I know how you feel because I’ve been there too. I’ve hated and I’ve loved. I’ve seen my demons root and crawl… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I don't sit down at nine in the morning and begin writing and then take a break for lunch and stop at… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
Teen magazines keep writing that my eyes ´twinkle´ when I talk. Look, I´m a guy. I don´t twinkle, you know! You can… — Jonathan Brandis Copy Share Image
“One of the single most important things a writer must do, besides writing, is reading ... ... and drinking coffee.” — Linda Ghaderi Copy Share Image
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
The best writing comes out when you find yourself broken. Your heart is ripped open and all the feelings spill out into… — Shannen Wrass Copy Share Image
The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system. — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
Ideally, anything one writes should have a social conscience: if you can write a story that thrills, and with a good message,… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“And no matter how much I want to encourage the man or woman trying for the first time to write seriously, I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When writing the story of your life don't hesitate taking any serious decisions as it is only one end and it is… — Mahmoud Emam Copy Share Image
Electronic musicians are quite like writers or painters. They are quite isolated in their home studios. We often don't have that the… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm… — Geoff Zanelli Copy Share Image
“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“One purpose in my writing is to help people expand their own understanding of what it means to be human.” — Foster Laverne Harding Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what… — Gza Copy Share Image
I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf. — Nancy K. Miller Copy Share Image
People look down on it, but I love the community of horror. Writers and directors are a tight group of people, and… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
