I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face… — Henri de Regnier Copy Share Image
I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so much and you… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I really like Los Angeles. I like the weather, the openness of it, the beach, the mountains, the desert. I find it… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
I've always loved movies, and enjoyed theater and stand-up comedy and I had a knack for writing and performing. — Paul Walter Hauser Copy Share Image
Kristofferson was writing what was really in his heart and saying it in ways we hadn't heard up till that point. — Jeffrey Steele Copy Share Image
I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I… — Ian Axel Copy Share Image
And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
A lot has to do with the writing. If you're the writer people seem to remember you. But my part is singing… — Randy Meisner Copy Share Image
I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they… — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause… — Francis Dunnery Copy Share Image
Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
After the editing room, I go and take a nap. I'm not in the practice of writing, and I feel like I'm… — Tamara Jenkins Copy Share Image
I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
One thing about writing 'The Sarah Silverman Program' was the concern that I don't give myself the best story, you know what… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
Every sketch goes through a rewrite stage where a group of writers sits around a table and pitches more jokes and ideas… — Vanessa Bayer Copy Share Image
I try really hard to ask people to take a look at their bookshelves. Are there female writers on it? Gay writers?… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“From what I saw the plurality of students and faculty had been educated exclusively in the tradition of writers like William Gaddis...” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Writing 'Jughead' in general is a pleasure because - and I think a lot of very tall guys can agree with me… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
I don't really pursue writing songs for other people. I guess one of the things I always think about is a good… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“Writing is a unique art-form. You are painting a detailed image in someone's mind, and it will be different for every single… — Giuseppe Bianco Copy Share Image
If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I'm a PAPER, u can write ur feelings, scribble ur anger, use me 2 absorb tears. Don't throw me after use but… — Mukesh Copy Share Image
In the early days, it was, you know, I used to weep while I was writing. I used to grab at any… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I do think it is important to look at the writing as a job though and to commit to it like you'd… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
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