Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"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

"You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last"

Milo Ventimiglia, Actor

"Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others, very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin, but inevitably questions emerge during the writing"

Jonathan Kellerman, Psychologist

"Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world"

Jonathan Kellerman, Psychologist

"The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire"

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, Writer

"I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'"

Howard Barker, Playwright

"They had always told me that I wrote like a man"

Ama Ata Aidoo, Author

"I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing"

Mackenzie Astin, Actor

"Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books"

Cory Doctorow, Journalist

"I had this really great, amazing thing happen, where I almost finished the book, and I really needed to come up with an ending, and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending"

Cory Doctorow, Journalist

"I write to escape; to escape poverty"

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Author

"I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it"

John Grisham, Writer

"I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got those documents from. I think they should say where they got these documents because I thought it was a very poor job of reporting by CBS"

Bob Novak, Entertainer

"I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"It doesn't use shading, but it does use stroke length variations"

John Robert Gregg, Inventor

"I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting"

Walter Wager, Novelist

"I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"I just sit down, and the page just comes out, and I look at it, and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life"

Cory Doctorow, Journalist

"I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales"

Carol Ann Duffy, Poet

"I'd be happy to do Star Trek again if the writing was right"

Stephen Collins, Actor

"I just let the character speak to me and things appear"

Shirley Knight, Actress

"You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows"

Louis Malle, Director

"I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is, to me, a lack of empathy"

Winston Graham, Novelist

"All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content"

Winston Graham, Novelist

"I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing"

Walter Lord, Author

"Well, don't tell Steve Niles, but I just don't think horror works in comics"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute"

Terence Rattigan, Dramatist

"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing"

Judith Rossner, Novelist

"I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing"

Judith Rossner, Novelist

"If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't, so I slapped it up on the Web"

Philip Greenspun, Scientist

"I love science fiction"

Pam Grier, Actress

"Writing is the continuation of politics by other means"

Philippe Sollers, Writer

"I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties"

Patricia Highsmith, Novelist

"The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet"

Mary Higgins Clark, Author

"In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write, but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard, I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing"

Mary Garden

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