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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

Quotes by Abigail Breslin

I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective.

Quotes by Abi Morgan

Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?

Quotes by Abi Morgan

Writing comedy is a superpower.

Quotes by Abi Morgan

Always Quotes

Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.

Quotes by Abi Morgan

I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.

Quotes by Abi Morgan

I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

Quotes by Abbie Cornish

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

Quotes by Abbie Cornish

Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

Book Quotes

The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

Good Quotes

We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story lead you to discovering who the character is in a natural way.

Quotes by Aaron Ehasz

It's a terrible poison, writing.

Quotes by A. S. Byatt

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

Quotes by A. S. Byatt

The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the...

Quotes by A. R. Rahman

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

Quotes by A. E. van Vogt

Like Quotes

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

Quotes by A. A. Milne

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

Quotes by A. B. Yehoshua

Texting isn't writing. It's not like letter writing. Texting is short scriptwriting. It's a collaborative soap opera where nothing happens.

Quotes by A. A. Gill

Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.

Quotes by A. A. Gill

Writing, for me, is the great organiser. It's while writing that I think most deeply about things.

Quotes by A. A. Gill

Love Quotes

I was always writing, since I was, like, 12.

Quotes by A Boogie wit da Hoodie

I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

Quotes by Zosia Mamet

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

Quotes by Zoey Deutch

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

Quotes by Zooey Deschanel

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

Quotes by Zoe Cassavetes

Me Quotes

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

Quotes by Zoe Kazan

I really, really, really love writing comics.

Quotes by Zoe Quinn

I've always enjoyed gaming, but even as I got older, and I started to get deeper into writing and all this stuff that is my grown-up job, I couldn't play as much as I used to.

Quotes by Zelda Williams

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

Quotes by Zane Grey

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

Quotes by Zane Grey

More Quotes

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

Quotes by Zane Grey

Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

Quotes by Zane Grey

I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.

Quotes by Zazie Beetz

I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work.

Quotes by Zachary Knighton

I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

Quotes by Zach Braff

Music Quotes

You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, 'Hey, I'm a screenwriter - look at this.' You can't sit around, wondering why people aren't calling and asking about my writing.

Quotes by Zach Galligan

I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.

Quotes by Yvette Mimieux

I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.

Quotes by Zac Brown

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

Quotes by Yann Tiersen

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

Quotes by Yanni

People Quotes

I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.

Quotes by Yanni

When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.

Quotes by Yance Ford

I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

Quotes by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

Quotes by Xander Berkeley

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

Quotes by Wole Soyinka

Think Quotes

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

Quotes by Wole Soyinka

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska

I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.

Quotes by Winnie Holzman

All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.

Quotes by Winston Graham

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

Quotes by Willie Nelson

Time Quotes

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Quotes by William Strunk, Jr.

Vigorous writing is concise.

Quotes by William Strunk, Jr.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

Quotes by William Styron

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

Quotes by William Styron

Let's face it, writing is hell.

Quotes by William Styron

You Quotes

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.

Quotes by William Styron

When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back and expand and explode those sentences, pack as much into them as I could, so they'd kind of...

Quotes by William T. Vollmann

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

Quotes by William Shatner

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.

Quotes by William Shawcross

I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.

Quotes by William Lashner

A sense of place is very important in writing.

Quotes by William Lashner

Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.

Quotes by William J. Mann

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

Quotes by William Hague

Getting even is one reason for writing.

Quotes by William H. Gass

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

Quotes by William H. Macy

As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I was writing about her. Everybody had something to say, some of it thoughtful, some of it poorly informed,...

Quotes by William Finnegan

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

Quotes by William E. Simon

David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character.

Quotes by William Devane

When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I...

Quotes by William Bell

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would...

Quotes by William A. Dembski

I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio...

Quotes by Willa Ford

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

Quotes by Will Self

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.

Quotes by Will Self

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people...

Quotes by Will Oldham

Definitely, I did not, after 'SNL,' say, 'OK, first I'll go be in Alexander Payne's movie.' I thought I might go back to writing, to be honest.

Quotes by Will Forte

Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.

Quotes by Will Friedle

Researching and writing about the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 was one of the most exciting and involving projects I've undertaken.

Quotes by Will Hobbs

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

Quotes by Wilbur Smith

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

Quotes by Wilfrid Sheed

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

Quotes by Wietse Venema

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

Quotes by Wietse Venema

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

Quotes by Wietse Venema

For writing stand-up, I have to have a little bit of anger and frustration to be motivated to do it. Stand-up, for me, comes from kind of a hostile engine.

Quotes by Whitney Cummings

I'm not sure what my material would have been if I'd have started earlier. I probably would have started with 'Damsels in Distress' kinds of films because that's the kind of comedy I was writing in college. So I didn't...

Quotes by Whit Stillman

I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

Quotes by Wendy Cope

I always enjoyed writing music; things pop into my head every day.

Quotes by Wayne Static

I've wanted to do a solo album since 2000 when I was writing songs for the 'Machine' record.

Quotes by Wayne Static

Even in those early years of Static-X, there was a pattern emerging where I would spend all my free time writing songs for Static-X and the other guys in the band spent their free time working on their other projects.

Quotes by Wayne Static

I hate it when bands keep making the same record over and over, so we're pushing ourselves to try new things and experiment in our writing approach.

Quotes by Wayne Static

You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we...

Quotes by Wayne Kramer

I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in...

Quotes by Watt Key

I started playing video games, and in 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and started game-mastering and writing my own adventures and creating my own worlds.

Quotes by Warren Spector

Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of...

Quotes by Warren Spector

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

Quotes by Warren Cuccurullo

Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.

Quotes by Warren Cuccurullo

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to...

Quotes by Walter Murch

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