Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hart Crane

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

Harry Stack Sullivan

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

Harry Shearer

Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that – having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow [as a kid] – I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.

Harry Treadaway

I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.

Harry Treadaway

Tone is always such an important thing, and that's achieved through a multitude of people. It comes through the writing, it comes through the way it's shot, and it comes through the production design and the sound design.

Harry Styles

I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.

Frank Zappa

I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't like it, there's always Michael Jackson for them to listen to.

Fred Saberhagen

The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.

Fred Saberhagen

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

Fred Rogers

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.

Mark Webber

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

Mark Udall

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

Mark Victor Hansen

When we accomplish a goal, it instantly loses some of its importance and we tend to lose interest. When we write down too many goals, there is plenty to keep our subconscious mind at work.

Mark Boal

For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.

Mark Boal

I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.

Marguerite Duras

There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.

Marguerite Duras

The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.

Marguerite Yourcenar

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others. Yet I ought to know that only music permits a succession of chords.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Translating is writing.

Marianne Faithfull

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

Mikhail Gorbachev

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

Mike Colter

I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas out there, but it's the execution that really makes it work.

Miguel de Unamuno

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

Nicholas Haslam

Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.

Nicholas Jarecki

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

Nicholas D. Kristof

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

Neil Burger

I think it worked two ways. One, a lot of people writing about the movie used that as shorthand and it could either be a good thing or they could use it to dismiss the movie like we were a copycat movie or something like that. It's very much its own story. It is a young woman in a post-apocalyptic society, but after that it's just a whole different kind of story and a different journey that she goes through.

Ned Beauman

I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

Ned Beauman

The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.

Naomi Shihab Nye

The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!