The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
Margaret Fuller

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
John Cleese

I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.
John Cleese

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.
Justin Timberlake

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.
Sidney Sheldon

Writing novels is the most exciting.
Sidney Sheldon

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
Marshall McLuhan

Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Lord Acton

I started writing songs at age 15.
Vince Clarke

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.
Joni Mitchell

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
Joni Mitchell

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.
Neil Gaiman

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.
Peter Singer

I started writing when I was about thirteen.
Al Purdy

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.
Quentin Tarantino

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
Quentin Tarantino

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
Quentin Tarantino

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
Garth Brooks