Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don’t go anywhere.

We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind.

You know if something is good because you remember the lines because it is written so well. The rhythm of the speech is spot on.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

I loved her like silence looks black when you try to touch it. I don’t remember her name or what she looked like or what her voice sounded like or anything she’s ever said or...

Moments are words that need to be written.

I don’t think anything you’ve written is immortal as yet.

If you get a script and it’s really well written, that’s always exciting.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps – when I couldn’t get work, people weren’t interested in me or had written me off.

It’s been a long time since I’ve written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I’m hoping it’s like riding a bicycle.

A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

I’ve really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn’t want to divulge things that were too private.

There’s a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what’s happening on streaming services.

Anytime I audition for something, it’s always a question of whether or not the people I’m auditioning for understand I’m an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if...

The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.

I know some people might think it odd – unworthy even – for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself...

Nobody ever talks about the pyramids that weren’t built, the books that weren’t written, the songs that weren’t sung. Stop letting your fear condemn you to mediocrity. Get out of your own way. Your dreams...

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

I write sets of books, but I’ve also written a lot of orphans.

The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her.

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.

Every script I’ve written and every series I’ve produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.

I’ve written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don’t really have a genre these days.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

The part in ‘Taxi’ was originally written for a guy named Phil Ryan, so they made it Phil Banta, and then they made it Tony Banta, which sounded a lot better anyway.

I’ve been very lucky. I’ve written for most of my idols and the contemporaries.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone’s written the story. He’s supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

What you’re doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to...

We don’t actually know if the person who wrote the Gospel of John had a written copy of Thomas because we don’t know exactly when it was written.

I’ve written virtually as long as I’ve acted, it wasn’t a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.

For most of my career, I’ve played roles that were written for other actresses.

Unless you’re doing Shakespeare or Chekhov… the written word is not sacrosanct.

I’m not the ‘look at me’ kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.

I wrote ‘Don’t Look Back’ in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn’t contracted, so there was a freedom in that – no expectations or anything like that. It was also my...

how these words, wait to diein the arms of all the poetry..yet to be written.

I haven’t written a brochure yet. It’s killing me. I know I have a brochure or pamphlet in me yet.

I’ve been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes – something I’ve been doing for 40 years. I thought that was contemptible – what do they...

So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

Ever since I picked up a bass, I’ve written songs.

I’ve always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil – especially for corrections.

I’ve always written down how I feel.

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers...