#rite

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#fingers #hard #i #kids #like

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#best #different #discard #every #figure

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other. ↗

— Boyle Roche

#i #i write #letter #other #pistol

What I want is to be the highest grossing screenwriter, or to have some other woman be the highest grossing screenwriter, instead of being number nine on the list. That's my goal. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#goal #highest #i #instead #list

They're pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are and aren't willing to portray. But the writers and the network are pretty much on the same page. ↗

— James Denton

#certainly #conversations #edit #much #network

My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#brenda #everything #family #great #great writer

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy. ↗

— Anita Desai

#best #could #doing #ever #first

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim. ↗

— George Saunders

#breaking #chances #gets #habits #limited

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#beliefs #how #i #people #shift

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#feel #i #music #people #physically