Writing

But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras we didn't have to pay them.

- John Sayles Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

- Faith Ringgold Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I always admired good writing and read everything that came out. When I was married to John Monk Saunders, he read everything, too.

- Fay Wray Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The only people really down for it were my producers, my manager and my pops. People were like, 'Yo, that will never get played. You're playing yourself. You're a fool. Why don't you start writing some nice, clean songs' I was like, 'Yo, this is what I do'

- Eamon Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We seem to have a botwar on our hands. There appear to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate, as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

- Mikko Hypponen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

- Peter Shaffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything.

- Jay Roach Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

- Al Purdy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You see I feel we did the best work we could possibly do, I don't think the writing could be any better, so why go back to it

- Bea Arthur Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We seem to have a botwar on our hands. There appears to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

- Mikko Hypponen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one or both. Usually both.

- Susan Sontag Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite Fool said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.

- Sir Sidney Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

- Abraham Lincoln Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I started writing stories as a child.

- Danielle Steel Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

And how is clarity to be achieved Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

- F. L. Lucas Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

- Alison Bechdel Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have been very fortunate from the get-go because I am a songwriter and was writing songs and was fortunate enough that I was getting pitched top-shelf songs because the songwriters were my friends.

- Craig Morgan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I went through my purple-prose phase in my songwriting... I was really writing between the lines. And that was what I took into my fiction. That was my apprenticeship, really.

- Kazuo Ishiguro Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.

- Kim Elizabeth Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's simply the ingenuity of the software developers -- their brilliance, their energy in coming together and writing these software packages. At Microsoft, we need to recruit the best and the brightest.

- Bill Gates Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm probably writing about sex because I don't have that right now.

- Britney Spears Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

- Henry David Thoreau Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

- Frank Morrison 'Mickey' Spillane Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You don't teach information in a writing workshop.

- Tobias Wolff Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.

- Fisher Stevens Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes