I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.
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I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.
BETH HENLEY I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
EDDIE CAMPBELL I write screenplays in the middle of the night.
RAY BRADBURY Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.
GEORGE LUCAS I'd rather do community service than sit and write a load of Christmas cards.
PAUL O'GRADY I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can'...
CAROLINE LEAVITT I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
KARA HAYWARD Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to w...
KAZUO ISHIGURO I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
NATALIE MERCHANT Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why ...
KAREN HESSE I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write ...
BRUCE VILANCH Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an ol...
DAMON GALGUT I write all my own songs. Everything I did on 'The X Factor' was basically original, except ...
ASTRO I can write ten or twelve screenplays in the time it takes me to write one novel. This allows me to ...
BENJAMIN PERCY When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the...
RICHARD RUSSO When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familia...
SATYAJIT RAY I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplay...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.
SARA PARETSKY Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the ...
PATRICK MARBER I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ide...
SAM SHEPARD You’re too much”, he said. “You talk too much, love too much, feel too much. And I don’t kno...
A BOOK I'LL NEVER WRITE For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I...
KATE GRENVILLE An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sur...
THOMAS CAMPBELL I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I al...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
ERIC BOGOSIAN I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I...
KATY PERRY I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
A. S. BYATT One of the things that I'd like to get back to that I did as a younger actor was to work on, you...
THOMAS GIBSON I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a ligh...
DAVID THEWLIS I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
CARL HIAASEN I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for a...
DAVID DUCHOVNY I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I&...
EDDIE MURPHY I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
ABE LEMONS For me, directing a film is like confining myself. I want to do something beyond direction. I can co...
PAWAN KALYAN If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemp...
EDMUND WHITE Write 'judge of beautiful women' on my tombstone. I'd be quite happy.
NIGEL BARKER I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could wri...
TANA FRENCH I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.
TAYLOR NEGRON I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up wi...
SAMMY HAGAR I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on differe...
JOHN SAXON In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
MAC DAVIS As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately goin...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have...
SIMON TOYNE I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
SALMAN RUSHDIE If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
LYDIA LUNCH If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You lea...
MICHAEL MORPURGO I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write...
JEFF KINNEY An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I ...
THOMAS CAMPBELL If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing no...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking t...
BILLY JOEL I'd waste a holiday trying to set a story in this new place I'd visit, whereas I would never...
DARRYL PINCKNEY When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in ...
ALLISON SCHROEDER I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, a...
JOHN TRUDELL But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and n...
DAVID BALDACCI I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The ph...
JOHN IRVING Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind...
KAREN ALLEN I write in the studio.
MACY GRAY I write my music.
T-PAIN I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some p...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to sa...
DAVID BOWIE I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited....
RACHEL KUSHNER When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go ...
KRISTIN KREUK I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupati...
DANIEL PINKWATER Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irr...
FRAN LEBOWITZ I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
JOHN ASHBERY I'd love to dance with grace and style, to move as easily as I write.
SHARON DRAPER I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats ...
GARRISON KEILLOR I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, w...
AARON SORKIN I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he ...
KATE THOMPSON I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a grea...
TAYLOR MOMSEN I'm the female Bob Woodward! If I were a liberal, I couldn't write another book. I'd be ...
ANN COULTER I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write fo...
BILLY COLLINS He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of ...
GEORGE LUCAS There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don...
DAVID LEVITHAN If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be o...
BEN ELTON In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st...
MARY GARDEN When I write music, I know a lot of artists like Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran tend to write from perso...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why cou...
JASON REITMAN Because I'm an American woman, and I write straight plays, it's always been sort of assumed ...
THERESA REBECK I write with as much objectivity as I can.
ERNEST GAINES I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it&...
EMMA ROBERTS I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup -...
STEPHENIE MEYER If there's going to be another Misfits record, I'd probably have to write the stuff.
GLENN DANZIG I write to escape; to escape poverty.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS I write very slowly.
CARLA BLEY I write with teenagers in mind.
BERNARD BECKETT I write, but I also act.
ERIC BOGOSIAN I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.
JAMES TOBACK I write to find strength.
I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to li...
SHANNON L. ALDER I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write becaus...
ORHAN PAMUK I attempt to create a form of seriocomic entertainment to either delight, enlighten, or disgust, whi...
ALBERT BROOKS I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a ...
JUNOT DIAZ 'Ice Age' felt like stage acting. You'd write a sequence, and sometimes you'd submit...
JASON FUCHS The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded ...
ADAM GOLDBERG I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that'...
AUGUST WILSON I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
J. D. SALINGER I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
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Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
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Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
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BETH DITTO Jessica. For god's sake," he said. "Allow me to do at least one common courtesy for you. In spite ow...
BETH FANTASKEY Choice or no, my heart is his.
BETH REVIS Where do you. come from?" Frank challenged, puffing his chest, a little bolder now that he could bre...
BETH FANTASKEY Why did I sign up for this?'
'Because we grow by challenging ourselves.
BETH FANTASKEY I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things ...
BETH GUTCHEON What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about thei...
BETH BROOKE Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists...
BETH DITTO I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday ...
BETH MOORE Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if...
BETH GRANT God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a parti...
BETH MOORE I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myse...
BETH DITTO The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are dif...
BETH GRANT More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It mu...
BETH REVIS I have this vintage Valentino clutch. Ughhh, it's so pretty! Also, I'm not a big fur person,...
BETH RIESGRAF As a business that's strategy-focused, I regularly experience bias on the part of male clients who a...
BETH ZIMMERMAN Many of the environmental modifications of interest to women are so fundamental that I expect them t...
BETH ZIMMERMAN Women want to simplify what they perceive to be an unnecessarily complex shopping process. Above all...
BETH ZIMMERMAN When you go from one lecture hall to another or even home for the holidays, there is a desire to be ...
BETH ZIMMERMAN The key is for product manufacturers and developers is to maintain as much of the essential function...
BETH ZIMMERMAN Have some idea of how much you want to spend when you go into a contract with anyone. Allow approxim...
BETH YOUNG I always do landscape design with the functional needs of the homeowners foremost in my mind.
BETH YOUNG I think the confidence and optimism are there. I think they are really starting to believe. Confiden...
BETH YOUNG I heard her shout that she was good for 16. I told Simone I was going to hold her to it. She said, '...
BETH YOUNG There's still a lot of basketball to be played. We visit Allen on Tuesday and they're always tough. ...
BETH YOUNG We probably have six who can score 18 to 20 points. We have five to six which can easily do it.
BETH YOUNG We are the epitome of a true team. We don't have any superstars and everyone has stepped up in one w...
BETH YOUNG There's a lot more attention being given to board leadership than there was a couple of years ago. W...
BETH YOUNG You can't get down in this district. We started 0-2 and that makes it hard. You can't ever give up.
BETH YOUNG