Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since"

John Grisham, Writer

"I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians"

James Welch, Writer

"I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller"

James Welch, Writer

"I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them"

Carlos Fuentes, Novelist

"It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one"

Alfred Einstein, Writer

"To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength"

Lawrence Clark Powell

"I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young"

Kim Elizabeth, Writer

"I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts"

Walter Wager, Novelist

"As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites.'"

Tom Skerritt, Actor

"I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further"

Stephen R. Donaldson, Writer

"I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human"

Shirley Knight, Actress

"I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes"

Ruth Rendell, Writer

"I read, therefore I'm interested in writers"

Philip Kaufman, Director

"My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people"

Patricia Highsmith, Novelist

"I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone"

Patricia Highsmith, Novelist

"I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman"

Patricia Highsmith, Novelist

"I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with"

P. J. Harvey, Musician

"The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare"

Michael Tippett, Composer

"I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that, and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is, you write in the moment and with your head down, and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had"

Michael Connelly, Author

"In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction"

Janet Leigh, Actress

"I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad"

Hart Crane, Poet

"I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet"

Guy Johnson, Writer

"When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing"

George Stephen, Businessman

"Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch"

George Stephen, Businessman

"A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life: experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story"

Eyvind Johnson, Author

"I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric"

Dorothy Kilgallen, Actress

"She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960s"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!"

Pat Morita, Actor

"I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them"

Len Deighton, Historian

"Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide"

Larry King, Entertainer

"I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"Well, see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man"

Patrick White, Author

"I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books"

Simon Callow, Actor

"There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson, which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart, and cyber punk is what comes out"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote"

Rex Stout, Writer

"And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it"

Poppy Z. Brite, Author

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