Michael Caine Quotes
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.Michael Caine
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I love writing songs.
Sade Adu -
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
Jackie DeShannon -
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Harrison Birtwistle -
Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
J. R. Moehringer -
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
Salman Rushdie -
The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
Randy Wayne White
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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
V. S. Naipaul -
I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Generally, I'm not writing about genomes or anything like that. But people underestimate the creativity you use in science and the rigor you need in music. They basically have the same path.
Pardis Sabeti -
Chopper Read attended a writing school I gave for inmates at Risdon Prison in Hobart many years ago. Even if I hadn't known about his hacked-off ears and his criminal history, I'd have found him powerful and compelling.
Garry Disher -
I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.
Bruce Nash -
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
Buddy Ebsen
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I think that everyone would agree that something that Marvel has done brilliantly is weave comedy into all of their action movies.
Dave Filoni -
The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.
Dawn French -
I didn't take writing seriously at first - I didn't think I could do it. When I did, I fell in love with it. But writing is very lonely.
Daniel Kaluuya -
My salary swings an unbelievable amount. When I had Holly, I took seven months off, so my salary was very low. It fluctuates wildly. No one pays you for the period you spend writing. I am certainly not rich.
Deirdre O'Kane -
As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.
Daniel H. Wilson -
I've always viewed writing as an outlet for being vulnerable and all that comes with that. You are able to let things all out.
Bishop Briggs
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In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.
John Kricfalusi -
I just love expressing my joy and my mind through what I wear, or how I cook, or how I dance, or how I write or perform a song - how I move.
Erykah Badu -
This was our wake-up call.
Eric Yuan -
For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
Bjork -
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
Michael Caine