Joseph Stalin Quotes

We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

To write, you need to find what you love.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

Art is giving to what you create a soul.

I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience's imagination.

I think that you don't really want to write a book that doesn't really move people and doesn't get them to think.

Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didn't have to do little exercises and stay in shape. You could have great moments of inspiration that advanced the story. In dance, unless you're going to choreograph things yourself, you're at the service of someone else.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.