Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one"

Len Deighton, Historian

"If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine"

William Gass, Writer

"They're pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are and aren't willing to portray. But the writers and the network are pretty much on the same page"

James Denton, Actor

"Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again"

Stephen Collins, Actor

"If I'm grumpy, I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well"

Rainer W. Fassbinder

"For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence"

Wallace Shawn, Actor

"I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there"

Taylor Dane, Writer

"Writing has never been a driving force within me"

Jeffrey Combs, Actor

"I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces"

Harold Ross, Editor

"Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds"

Will Friedle, Actor

"I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer"

Fred Savage, Actor

"Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that"

Ethan Suplee, Actor

"The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice"

Terence Fisher, Director

"Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life"

Stephen Greenblatt, Critic

"No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered"

Stephen Greenblatt, Critic

"I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller"

Stephen Greenblatt, Critic

"I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me"

Stephen Greenblatt, Critic

"When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people"

Slick Rick, Musician

"Science fiction is very healthy in its form"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing"

Rex Stout, Writer

"I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror"

Poppy Z. Brite, Author

"There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality"

Michael Gartner, Journalist

"If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that"

Mary Garden

"As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren't in her character. She was older, soft-spoken, and she started showing some attitude"

Kathryn Stockett, Novelist

"It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy"

Jimmy Fallon, Comedian

"That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance"

Ian McDiarmid, Actor

"I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real"

Zach Braff, Actor

"The head writer loves that my character is a boor"

Rob Corddry, Comedian

"Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text"

Richard Curtis, Writer

"Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule"

Richard Curtis, Writer

"My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept"

Pierre Loti, Writer

"I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out"

Lee Child, Writer

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