Best Quotes

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment.

One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen.

When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.