Crazy Quote by Steve Toltz

I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them in the…

— Lynn Nottage

I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as…

— Jane Fonda

Have you ever heard someone tell a story but felt they are just mouthing the words without being emotionally connected? When you do this,…

— Mark Goulston

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was…

— Hank Green

It may have taken nine years, and a whole lot of wrong turns along the way, but their story felt complete at last. Because,…

— Julie James

“More than anything else I wanted to get inside my readers’ defenses, wanted to rip them and ravish them and change them forever with…

— Stephen King

“Still, when I read the story, I felt like I'd written half of it myself, and the author guy was responsible for the other…

— Victor Lodato

I tried to avoid making plays or films that weren't telling a story that I felt was important. And what I discovered in the…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way of me…

— Eric Bana

“You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.”

— Jodi Picoult

“The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.”

— Stephanie Lennox

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more…

— Taylor Dayne

“Sometimes we don't know where we are going until we get there.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting,…

— Mike Birbiglia

It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing…

— Robert B. Weide