#writer

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#frightened #i #like #more #movies

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion. ↗

— James Blunt

#away #being #boarding #boarding school #could

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#age #changes #economy #government #internet

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#great writer #i #i think #mean #problem

I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#attention #audience #because #book #capture

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#most #rock #rollers #write #writers

Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#being #christian #dream #grey #her

I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#angeles #anyone #believe #book #going

What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means. ↗

— Sonny Bono

#businessman #haven #i #know #life

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