Actors Quote by John Cleese

There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people who write…

— Eric Idle

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

— Debbie Harry

“I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal.”

— John Steinbeck

Why do I write? I have been called a writer of catastrophes, but that isn't true. I am always looking for words of love.…

— Svetlana Alexievich

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without…

— Gertrude Stein

“Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room,…

— Kelly Jones

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write…

— Fred Frith

i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then…

— Ernest Hemingway

I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older,…

— Scott Westerfeld

I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then…

— Ernest Hemingway