As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.
I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.
I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.
If you're a writer, you're always working.
Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.
Writers wake up the world.
No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.
Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?
It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
It is not brains or intelligence that is needed to cope with the problems with Plato and Aristotle and all of their successors to the present have failed to confront. What is needed is a readiness to undervalue the world altogether. This is only poss...
I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember this for the next time I’m having a terrible week. Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why. I try to remind myself when I feel great like this ...
Stalker's Wife: And there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair. And the moon became like blood... And the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. And t...
Terry Ladd: Yeah, listen, we'd love to stand around and chat, but we've gotta... sit down in the lobby and wait for the limo. Derek Smalls: Ok. David St. Hubbins: OK. Great. Duke, great to see you. Great to see you again Terry. Derek Smalls: We'll ca...
The acts of kindness I do for my community comes from the heart. If your mind wonders why I serve the community with such a kind heart, there goes a great connection between heart and mind. Once your mind figures out why my heart drives me to service...
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Great blessings come from Heaven; small blessings come from man.
The first step toward greatness is to be honest.
All good writers are weird. Proudly weird.
