Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don't like to talk about, or like to ignore"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance"

George Stephen, Businessman

"I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story"

Frank Darabont, Director

"I'd always thought that if Python was going to go on at all, it'd be nice to get into storylines"

Terry Jones, Comedian

"I've got America's best writer for $300 a week"

Jack L. Warner, Businessman

"I like to read and write and take pictures and bike"

Alex D. Linz, Actor

"Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over"

Eric Brown, Writer

"Well, to be honest, I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days"

Eric Brown, Writer

"I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days"

Anne Lamott, Author

"I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!"

Meg Cabot, Author

"My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money"

Marcel Achard, Playwright

"I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation"

Brian P. Cleary, Author

"The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years"

Eric Carle, Author

"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic"

Anne Stevenson, Poet

"I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me"

Anne Stevenson, Poet

"Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that"

Kate Mulgrew, Actress

"A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel"

Julien Green, Novelist

"I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work"

John Grisham, Writer

"Make the important interesting"

James Fallows, Journalist

"I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain"

Jeffrey Combs, Actor

"When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it"

Julia Barr, Actress

"My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky"

Judith Rossner, Novelist

"I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy"

Alan Jackson, Musician

"One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories"

Bill Williams, Celebrity

"I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America"

Sydney Schanberg, Journalist

"I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general"

Eric Brown, Writer

"The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone"

Robert Asprin, Author

"Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on"

Buddy Ebsen, Actor

"The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage"

Ron Ziegler, Politician

"Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today"

Robert McAfee Brown, Theologian

"Listen to advice. You don't know how many writers' conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field"

Jane Haddam, Writer

"'Made it as a writer?' I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough"

Eric Brown, Writer

"I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography"

June Foray, Actress

"The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important"

Julien Green, Novelist

"I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper"

Julien Green, Novelist

"I wrote a lot in study hall, to while away the hours"

James Welch, Writer

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