David Belasco Quotes
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
Quotes to Explore
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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I was an avid Pokemon card collector.
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When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius!
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Every idea has its time.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I just write mechanical things.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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If you can write it, I can be it.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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Had 'Dhruva' not succeeded, I don't mind calling these films experimental.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
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If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
