Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it"

Tony Hillerman, Author

"I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites"

Tony Hillerman, Author

"Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies"

Matthew McGrory, Actor

"I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books"

Martin C. Smith, Writer

"I have broken a lot of stories"

Robert Scheer, Journalist

"In the first debate, the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right"

Robert Nelson, Politician

"Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel"

Tim Cahill, Athlete

"I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course"

Sue Grafton, Novelist

"My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits"

Sue Grafton, Novelist

"I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form"

Sue Grafton, Novelist

"My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better, but as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes"

Donald McKay, Designer

"I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work"

Donald McKay, Designer

"James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster"

Charlotte Mary Yonge, Novelist

"Writers tell stories better because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche"

Tanith Lee, Writer

"I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!"

Tanith Lee, Writer

"I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic"

Shelley Berman, Comedian

"When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction"

Armistead Maupin, Novelist

"I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need"

Jim Walton, Businessman

"I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind"

Judy Davis, Actress

"As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers"

Daniel H. Hill, Soldier

"Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening"

Herbert Gold, Author

"I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't"

Greg Egan, Scientist

"Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face"

Terence Young, Director

"Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"I describe my plots as follows: a character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long, and how well; this all depends entirely on the character"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means"

Debbie Harry, Musician

"I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy"

Lee Child, Writer

"I don't write for any particular kind of person"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance"

John Entwistle, Musician

"Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

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