#rite

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#actor #been #daft #day #directed

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#been #convinced #crushed #france #had

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done! ↗

— Connie Britton

#birthday #blue #collection #dad #done

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#fiction #fiction writer #go #illumination #interesting

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#books #british #british museum #might #monkeys

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#better #good #good luck #i #i can

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs! ↗

— Zac Efron

#cd #doing #future #i #kid

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#around #ball #ball game #becomes #composer

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#director #had #her #his #i

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#come #healing #nothing #realization #right