Famous Quotes & Sayings

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Denis Johnson

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

Bobby Farrelly

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

Andrew Motion

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

Aleksandar Hemon

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

Aleksandar Hemon

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

Alberto Moravia

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

Alberto Moravia

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

Alberto Manguel

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

Mark Gatiss

The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.

Navid Negahban

I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.

Muhammad Ali

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

Mikhail Bakunin

Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.

Mark Hoppus

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

Nicholas Brendon

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

Ned Beauman

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

Naomi Campbell

After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Emmanuel Jal

To tell my story, to touch lives.

Emma Thompson

I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.

Lord Byron

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

Charles Soule

There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'm thrilled to be part of them.

Laurie Holden

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.

Steve Breen

Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.