I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
Robert Smith
The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is... →
Russell Smith
Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is... →
From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in... →
I look for those moments that are 'gee whiz' moments. There's some 'gee whiz' stories in our show, and they can't be written... →
Shepard Smith
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Stephen Sondheim
When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
Aaron Sorkin
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by... →
Wole Soyinka
When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so forth. I don't think... →