Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"I guess, whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school, my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words"

Anthony Doerr, Writer

"My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment"

Caroline B. Cooney, Writer

"I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career"

Caroline B. Cooney, Writer

"I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance"

Bernard Cornwell, Novelist

"And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee"

Bernard Cornwell, Novelist

"Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested"

Anthony Doerr, Writer

"Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity"

Armand Assante, Actor

"I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published"

Caroline B. Cooney, Writer

"The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts"

A. E. van Vogt, Author

"In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers, who did some of my early covers, and I was impressed with him"

A. E. van Vogt, Author

"I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession"

Caroline B. Cooney, Writer

"I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings"

Caroline B. Cooney, Writer

"The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence"

Ahmet Zappa, Musician

"Writing is a solitary occupation"

Bernard Cornwell, Novelist

"Then you start another book, and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in, and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one"

Bernard Cornwell, Novelist

"So far it's 43 books in 25 years"

Bernard Cornwell, Novelist

"I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words"

Anthony Doerr, Writer

"At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights"

A. E. van Vogt, Author

"You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends"

Anthony Doerr, Writer

"All of my novels are democracies"

Amos Oz, Writer

"I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories"

A. E. van Vogt, Author

"I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on"

Anthony Doerr, Writer

"A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments"

Joyce Cary, Novelist

"I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at"

Kate Adie, Journalist

"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter"

Kate Adie, Journalist

"With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself"

Seth MacFarlane, Cartoonist

"That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"The problem is that it is difficult to translate"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may, I might write something instead"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"As is said about most writers: on the one hand, all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

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