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 write screenplays in the middle of the night.
RAY BRADBURY I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
KARA HAYWARD Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.
GEORGE LUCAS Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to w...
KAZUO ISHIGURO 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 Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the ...
PATRICK MARBER I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write ...
BRUCE VILANCH I write all my own songs. Everything I did on 'The X Factor' was basically original, except ...
ASTRO I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplay...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of ...
GEORGE LUCAS I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
ERIC BOGOSIAN When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familia...
SATYAJIT RAY An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I ...
THOMAS CAMPBELL I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write...
JEFF KINNEY I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The ph...
JOHN IRVING An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sur...
THOMAS CAMPBELL I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.
TAYLOR NEGRON I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for a...
DAVID DUCHOVNY But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothin...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE For me, directing a film is like confining myself. I want to do something beyond direction. I can co...
PAWAN KALYAN I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
JOHN ASHBERY I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I al...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre.
BARRIE KEEFFE Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat ...
ARTHUR MILLER Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...
EDWARD GIBBON Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,
unskilled in the arts of comp...
EDWARD GIBBON Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...
EDWARD GIBBON I'd toyed with a couple of ideas beforehand, but I hadn't written a single cue, and it was a wonderf...
LARS VON TRIER I'd rather do community service than sit and write a load of Christmas cards.
PAUL O'GRADY I write to find strength.
I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to li...
SHANNON L. ALDER I don't write poetry with the intention of making someone sad but rather to illustrate my own feelin...
JAMES DYE I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
EDDIE CAMPBELL I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
J. D. SALINGER I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything ...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that...
MATT DAMON I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT I would rather not know how to write and have something to say than know how to write and have nothi...
ENRIQUE TESSIERI I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone...
VIKAS SWARUP When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in ...
ALLISON SCHROEDER Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
LOUIS UNTERMEYER Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irr...
FRAN LEBOWITZ I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me
WALTER RALEIGH SR. Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS 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 write in the studio.
MACY GRAY I write my music.
T-PAIN It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
DODIE SMITH I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes ...
C. S. FORESTER I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until ...
ELLEN GLASGOW There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just ...
J.D. SALINGER I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
DANA PERINO I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.
JAMES TOBACK I cannot write epic but I can write simple and make it epic
HARISH D. WATHORE I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.
DAN BROWN I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited....
RACHEL KUSHNER I did read Sherlock Holmes as a boy but I never thought for a moment that I'd ever write about Doyle...
JULIAN BARNES 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 I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, a...
JOHN TRUDELL I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats ...
GARRISON KEILLOR It does not follow . . . that the right to criticize Shakespeare involves the power of writing bette...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW When I write music, I know a lot of artists like Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran tend to write from perso...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A...
ALEXIS DZIENA I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about...
PAT CONROY She did very well in the tournament, but we knew she would, ... Beth is a steady player, she keeps h...
BETH SHELTON And so I write. I write my life. I write to escape real life. I write to live moments over again. I ...
R.B. O'BRIEN The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
ROBERTSON DAVIES 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 would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
NATALIE MERCHANT I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write becaus...
ORHAN PAMUK I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting cl...
AMY HEMPEL I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ide...
SAM SHEPARD There's a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tel...
RICHARD PAUL EVANS I write,& write,& write notebooks full of thoughts inspired by thoughts. I share some, I keep some i...
NICNICLOUISIANA Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why ...
KAREN HESSE You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I'll write it myself.
JOE PASTERNAK Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an ol...
DAMON GALGUT I will write until I can write no more. Then, I will write less.
DETRICK HUGHES I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly...
EILEEN MYLES I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the sta...
CECELIA AHERN 'Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard
MARCUS AURELIUS I would love to have a couple of pitches, a couple of plays back. We pushed them. We had them on the...
DARON SCHOENROCK I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time ...
MARY ARCHER Somebody could not write 1 but could write 2
ASARE BEN CHRIS(ABC) Receive before you write, but write before you pay.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I do not think I will ever write screenplays based on my books. I would not know what to cut out and...
RAVI SUBRAMANIAN I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.
MELISSA LEE-HOUGHTON I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put ...
TOM STOPPARD I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can wr...
A. J. LIEBLING I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would ...
HANNAH KENT I don't write stories, I write characters.
BHAVYA KAUSHIK The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean
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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