You want the character to keep being able to grow through the process of writing, through the process of filming, and editing,… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
“What the semicolon’s anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“An editor asked me what led me to write erotica. I replied, "A dirty mind, excess words, and an overactive sacral chakra.” — Fierce Dolan Copy Share Image
I have to be honest about this: I wouldn't tell a lot of kids to go and be writers. It's a tough,… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it… — Carol Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places. — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing. — Anne-Marie Copy Share Image
It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Dear darling,Dear darlin, please excuse my writing. I cant stop my hands from shaking 'Cause Im cold and alone tonight. I miss… — Alec Copy Share Image
When we were done and not picked up to series yet, they wanted us to read lots of writers. I was like,… — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
“Thankfully existing only in SMALL pockets within our discipline, is “intellectual” snobbery. It’s a hushed but ugly truth that people are made… — Sandra Sealy Copy Share Image
“but she smiled and whispered, and made confidences, and looked out of her own eyes into men’s eyes as though there might… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and… — Alex Chilton Copy Share Image
“I thought to myself, who is this excellent man Van Doren who being employed to teach literature, teaches just that: talks about… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand,… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“Vātsyāyana’s famous textbook of erotics, the Kāma-sūtra, lists secret writing as one of the 64 arts, or yogas, that women should know… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
Amy [ Schumer] is a really, really hilarious writer.She's super funny, and I feel like the core of our senses of humor… — Katie Dippold Copy Share Image
I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though.… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years. — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing. — Kelly Jones Copy Share Image
I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you. — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
“Art was not simply a foregone conclusion, the final link in a causal chain. It was not the inevitable outcome of an… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I just kind of go with what I am feeling and don't think I have any kind of recipe for it... I… — Cole Swindell Copy Share Image
Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Honestly I don't like to write songs that often, only when I feel like I need to and when I've got something… — Matt Thiessen Copy Share Image
It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image
All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put… — Bill Wyman Copy Share Image
Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another… — Christian Bauman Copy Share Image
I did a lot of theater as a young actor in my early twenties, and my first few records really came from… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image