Bills Quote by Bob Kane

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a…

— Simon Callow

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get…

— A. E. van Vogt

Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but…

— Jack Vance

There are different levels of scripting that we all use; I think I'm the most improvised of the three, and probably Andrew's the most…

— Joe Swanberg

We did have a script, but it didn't consist of the routines and gags. It outlined the basic story idea and just a plan…

— Stan Laurel

I wrote a lot of scripts that were dark and fairy tale-like, but too strange.

— Robert Eggers

For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion.…

— Sandra Brown

When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's…

— Douglas Adams

The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson…

— Lydia Davis

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

— Edward Norton