Acting Quote by Harvey Fierstein

The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."

— Tony Hillerman

“If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.”

— Elaine Liner

I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing. I was lucky that my mother…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

The only other thing I can really remember wanting to do besides acting was a gas station attendant. At the time, that seemed like…

— Daniel Stern

I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing…

— Domhnall Gleeson

“(on teaching writing) So many writers come to class with one question dominant in their mind, 'How do I make a living from this?'…

— Celine Kiernan

“I think most writers … write about episodes meaningful to them in terms of their own imaginations. Now that would include a great deal…

— Joseph Heller

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

— Matthew Collings

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer

To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently. In my…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Yes, I know what you mean about writing and writers. We seem to have lost the target. Writers seem to write to be known…

— Charles Bukowski