Cinema Quote by Adam Green

Maybe if I'd studied writing instead of anthropology, I'd be more sensible. You know - pick a genre, follow the rules, stay in the…

— Mary Doria Russell

Comics have years to explain this stuff, and in a movie, you have to focus on one thing. So it's about kind of streamlining,…

— Edgar Wright

I came from advertising. For me it's about protecting the director's vision. That's always the goal. There's keeping things on budget and on time…

— Charles Roven

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I…

— Norton Juster

“I meant to spend the day writing, but instead I spent the afternoon cleaning out my belly button. Historians will thank me one day.”

— Jarod Kintz

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day;…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing.…

— Flume

I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and…

— Sue Grafton

We were so focused on the production aspect of it that it wasn't until later in our college experience that we realized we needed…

— Ross Duffer

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

— Tea Obreht

Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing.

— Mary Gauthier

Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

— Kacey Musgraves

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

— Sue Grafton

I would love to focus on writing books that were not just about issues.

— Elizabeth May

“Focus on writing first.”

— Lyra Parish