When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
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I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
When I originally wrote "Jealousy," it was more like an exercise to try to write a girl-group kind of pop song. It… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I've written about teenage heroes before, on Marvel's Runaways, and I remember at the time when I pitched it, it was a… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete,… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
The director [Elfar Adalsteins] came to me through my agent and I had a read of the script [of the "Sailcloth]. I… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of music, so to be able to put that together and play some shows around the country and… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
We are following Allah's word. We believe that humanity's only duty is to honor Allah and his prophet Muhammad, peace be upon… — Abdul Sattar Abu Risha Copy Share Image
I'm horrible at concepts. My life is random and my inspiration is random. But it's all written in a very specific time… — Oh Land Copy Share Image
I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I don't know how many resolutions from the IMF or G-20 we have already written saying that such [financial] reforms are necessary… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
Playing live is closer to theatre, although when you're up there on your own, it's quite scary and revealing because you're playing… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
When the last history of high-frequency trading is written, Hunsader, like Joe Saluzzi and Sal Arnuk of Themis Trading, deserves a prominent… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind… — Anselm of Canterbury Copy Share Image
Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book.… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
In the beginning was the Word. It doesn't say in the beginning was God. In the beginning was the Word because in… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
Many books have been written about what the X-factor is, what separates people who win big matches versus those who struggle. Some… — Jim Courier Copy Share Image
I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
You learn the values that are inherent in the scene that the writer has written. You learn about who you as a… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image