Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life"

Neil Simon, Playwright

"Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day"

William Allingham, Poet

"If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose"

Carlo Collodi, Writer

"My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak"

Adelbert von Chamisso, Poet

"My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as"

Kate Adie, Journalist

"I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera"

Seth MacFarlane, Cartoonist

"I haven’t written much. It seems to me that I have written well. I would like to write even less. And even better"

Mak Dizdar, Poet

"My soul is ready, like a spool and paper in front of me"

Abdulah Sidran, Author

"When I write fiction, I put a lot of emphasis on the senses. I want to convey vivid senses like hearing and touch, including visual images. I infuse these sensations into my sentences like an electric current"

Han Kang, Novelist

"Fiction makes it possible to take on subjects that would be too difficult or painful to address in the first person. It allows me also to maintain a certain distance from what I write"

Scholastique Mukasonga, Writer

"I think it's the best thing ever to be able to tell your story and have it be heard and understood"

Michelle Yeoh, Actress

"I write because I have authority from life to do so"

Bessie Head, Writer

"I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write"

Bessie Head, Writer

"Even when I'm writing something very specific, I'm trying to reach something universal"

Mitski, Musician

"I'm always writing about how to be a human being"

Mitski, Musician

"Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist"

Tommy Lee Jones, Actor

"When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes"

Jill Hennessy, Actress

"Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time"

Chris Hughes, Entrepreneur

"I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner"

Helena Christensen, Model

"To write is to lose yourself in the endless movement of life"

Rafael Cadenas, Poet

"To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!"

Anne Seward, Poet

"Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them"

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Actor

"As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending"

John Hawkes, Actor

"When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair"

Alfred Kazin, Critic

"Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either"

Meg Cabot, Author

"Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard"

James J. Corbett, Athlete

"My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!"

Ben Elton, Comedian

"You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects"

Jane Haddam, Writer

"I write about five thousand words a day when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories"

Eric Brown, Writer

"Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate"

John Metcalf, Editor

"Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense"

Fawn M. Brodie, Author

"Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time"

Stephanie Zimbalist, Actress

"With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work"

Phil Keoghan, Celebrity

"Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash"

Nicholas Mosley, Novelist

"It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels"

Nicholas Mosley, Novelist

"I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative"

Nicholas Mosley, Novelist

"I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that"

Michael Tolkin, Screenwriter

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