“The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.” FeelsWritingLittlesEndsFilmActorsSpaceRolesShapesInterviewsDisguiseShifting Author:Julia Leigh
“Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.” WritingSometimesPlaySeemsRolesRevision Author:Ellen Hunnicutt
“The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.” WritingRolesPressesJewIsrael Author:Norman Podhoretz
“I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.” WritingUseActingCareersRolesVehicle Author:Danny Strong
“We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.” WantShouldWritingYearsMadeProblemActionBoysRolesWatchesHeroPeriodsAction Heroes Author:James Mangold
“My dream role is to portray someone like James Baldwin. I've always been a fan of his writing, and I feel like he's one of our unsung heroes. He's been pretty much forgotten, and I think he needs to be recognized. He had to go all the way to Europe to find recognition and acceptance, and I'd just like to bring him to the forefront.” ThinkingWayNeedsFeelsWritingDreamRolesFansAcceptanceHeroEuropeForgottenRecognitionUnsung Hero Author:Michael K. Williams
“I like monsters in general - that's what I like to write about. Somebody was joking with me that my body was becoming a manual for a role-playing game because I'm covered in little monsters. That's true. I could easily have more monsters on my skin.” WritingLittlesBodyGamesRolesBecomingSkinsMonstersCoveredManualsPlaying GamesRole Playing Author:Maria Dahvana Headley
“There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles” WayWritingWellsPersonsFactsStoriesTogetherLeftRolesGonePaperCleverTalesNarrativePreservesTallLegendsSelectedEditedTall Tales Author:Steven Hall
“The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.” WorldWritingEyeTodayLanguageFictionResponsibilityVisionPovertyRolesAwarenessEarsIncreaseTongueSensesDeprivedPoorestCripples Author:Anais Nin
“If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.” PeopleIfsWritingPlayActorsInterestingRolesContradictionNuance Author:Paul Schrader
“Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.” WritingRolesPerformancesSuicide Author:Philip Roth