I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
I became hooked on 'In Treatment,' which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex territory with real grace and humanity.
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?
I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I've done.
The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.
there comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are written down have any possibility of being real.
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.
I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.
I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.
Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.
We owe it to our children to be honest about the world and to provide them with material written specially for them.
Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.
As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it.
I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.
I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
