Mahershala Ali Quotes

I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

Mahershala Ali

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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

Felicity Jones
- Up
- Done
- Night
I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.

Patrick Fugit
- City
- Acting
- Lake
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Irwin Shaw
- Writing
- Football
- Hurt
All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

Walter Mosley
- Up
- Writing
- Want
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

Carlos Fuentes
- Writing
- Done
- Nothing
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.

Wayne Kramer
- Writing
- Play
- Thought