Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"I think that my script, if it gets used, would be great. But if it doesn't, I think it inspired them"

Rae Dawn Chong, Actress

"I want people to notice my writing abilities are real, and that I'm not just stuck in one situation"

R. Kelly, Musician

"A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print"

Marguerite Yourcenar, Novelist

"I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here"

Michael Owen Bruce, Musician

"So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it"

Harold Acton, Historian

"I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer"

Cynthia Ozick, Novelist

"One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"Of course, it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs', therefore it, erm, runs"

Kamal Ahmed, Comedian

"My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems"

Judith Krantz, Novelist

"I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators"

Ian Hunter, Musician

"The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut"

Jacqueline Susann, Author

"I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time"

Jacqueline Susann, Author

"I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature"

Jacqueline Susann, Author

"I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks"

Janet Flanner, Journalist

"And I love writing. I've always loved writing"

James Daly, Actor

"We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience"

Howie Mandel, Comedian

"When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can"

Louis Malle, Director

"Talk radio doesn't need to be political"

Jim Sullivan, Musician

"I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details"

Crystal Chappell, Actress

"Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me"

Donald E. Westlake, Writer

"I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again"

Donald E. Westlake, Writer

"There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves"

Cliff Fadiman, Author

"In writing, I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better"

Brian P. Cleary, Author

"A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators"

Augustine Birrell, Author

"I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe"

Francois Gautier, Writer

"The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good"

Eric Brown, Writer

"The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration as a need to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down"

Eric Brown, Writer

"I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story"

Eric Brown, Writer

"Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed"

Peter O'Toole, Actor

"Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare"

Michael Moriarty, Actor

"Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads"

John Grisham, Writer

"Our literature is in great shape"

James Welch, Writer

"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on"

Sydney Schanberg, Journalist

"So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining"

Chad Lowe, Actor

"I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium, whether it's theater, film, TV"

Chad Lowe, Actor

"One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an "old" young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell"

Raymond E. Feist, Author

"I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them"

Toby Young, Journalist

"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow"

Lawrence Clark Powell

"When I write, I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively"

Kim Elizabeth, Writer

"My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible, and control my own creative destiny"

Jeff Probst, Entertainer

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