Writing Quote by Thea Sharrock Download Open image “I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.” — Thea Sharrock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing Years ago
I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work. — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money. — Thomas C Foster Copy Share Image
..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a long time. Writers only like to sniff their own turds. I am one of those. I don't even like to talk to writers, look at them or worse, listen to them. And the worst is to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share
Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Well, unlike a lot of authors, I will be the one to cop to having a ghostwriter. I've always written with someone else. — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
When you're casting, you have to do quite a bit of research. But I always think you have to do it with a pinch… — Thea Sharrock Copy Share Image
If you cast your supporting cast well, it should be seamless. You shouldn't even notice who's a big part and who's a small part.… — Thea Sharrock Copy Share Image
I ran the Gate in Notting Hill for a while, which is where Stephen Daldry started out. Those theaters are magical, because there's no… — Thea Sharrock Copy Share Image
There's nothing like a great piece of theater - a great performance in a great piece of theater. — Thea Sharrock Copy Share Image
People grow and change and develop through their experiences, so ultimately you have to go with what's in the room - the feeling you… — Thea Sharrock Copy Share Image
It takes such a particular amazing and extraordinary type of personality to become an actor. I love them. You can't do my job without… — Thea Sharrock Copy Share Image
I don't have a particular genre that I want to stick to; if you work on a small piece, you take that experience with… — Thea Sharrock Copy Share Image
I've got Tom Hiddleston playing Henry V. I don't want to have a bowl haircut. I want him looking good so, you know, I… — Thea Sharrock Copy Share Image
I love working with people I've worked with before and that can be true of when people have worked together. But if two people… — Thea Sharrock Copy Share Image
The camera kind of finds things that the naked eye can't even see. By moving in a certain way, you're already telling part of… — Thea Sharrock Copy Share Image
I never really felt aware of my gender, being a woman, and whether that was in my favor or not. Because there's nothing I… — Thea Sharrock Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image