Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer"

Gerald Clarke, Politician

"His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction"

Gerald Clarke, Politician

"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness"

Georges Simenon, Writer

"When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies"

Brendan Gill, Critic

"During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms"

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Author

"There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"I am really a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers"

Frank Harris, Author

"If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive"

Catherine Keener, Actress

"Everything that I write will be signed with my name"

Elinor Glyn, Author

"Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally, you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to"

Charles Dance, Actor

"I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write"

Catie Curtis, Musician

"The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors"

Edmund White, Novelist

"I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky', and that project is up in the air at the moment"

David Wain, Writer

"In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?"

Gao Xingjian, Novelist

"As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds"

Gao Xingjian, Novelist

"They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky"

Bram Stoker, Writer

"Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there, Undead"

Bram Stoker, Writer

"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper"

Bill Walsh, Editor

"And I don't like books which are full of name dropping"

Daphne du Maurier, Novelist

"While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer, I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story"

Ann Beattie, Writer

"I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around"

Ann Beattie, Writer

"People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination"

Curtis Sittenfeld, Writer

"A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire"

Chris Morris, Critic

"Novel writing wrecks homes"

C. S. Forester, Novelist

"Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews"

Bob Kane, Artist

"Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half"

Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist

"People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way"

Anita Desai, Novelist

"It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources"

Allan Sloan, Journalist

"Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere"

Bram Stoker, Writer

"I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well"

Bram Stoker, Writer

"A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines"

Bill Walsh, Editor

"Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits"

Ann Beattie, Writer

"I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one"

Amanda Lear, Musician

"There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly"

Bill Forsyth, Director

"My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly"

Anita Desai, Novelist

"Ever since I could first write, I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy"

Anita Desai, Novelist

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