Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later"

Gene Wolfe, Writer

"Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer"

Len Deighton, Historian

"The worst storyline I've ever been involved in I wasn't involved in, because I was clever enough to get pregnant with my second child and they wrote me out and they replaced me with Christine Jones. And thank God - that was the worst storyline"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"I'd love to work on a script in collaboration"

Matthew McGrory, Actor

"I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer"

Martin C. Smith, Writer

"What is overriding that, and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance"

Michael Connelly, Author

"I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the Twin Towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books"

Michael Connelly, Author

"Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote"

Donald E. Westlake, Writer

"I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading"

Tony Hillerman, Author

"An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place"

Tony Hillerman, Author

"St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings"

Karl Philipp Moritz, Author

"I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it"

Laurie Lee, Poet

"I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell"

Martin C. Smith, Writer

"I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative"

Robert Scheer, Journalist

"About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"In the second and third debates, the jacket has a generally padded shape across a large part of the entire back, which tapers inward toward the spine in a downward direction"

Robert Nelson, Politician

"Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better"

Jane Rule, Author

"I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write"

James Rollins, Author

"I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road"

James Rollins, Author

"You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside"

James Daly, Actor

"I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write, but I still manage"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name"

Harry Mathews, Author

"The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"Well, I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published"

Charles Keating, Lawyer

"I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table"

Patrick White, Author

"Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years"

George Stephen, Businessman

"In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story"

George Barr McCutcheon, Novelist

"I just write mechanical things"

Barry Zito, Athlete

"I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels"

Patrick White, Author

"Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it"

James Ellroy, Writer

"I want to know what they look like: their height, and colouring, physique, and speech pattens"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own!"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"Lacey said, if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would read the New York Times, and that's not what he wanted in the Village Voice"

Sydney Schanberg, Journalist

"I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an exuberant manner"

James Ellroy, Writer

"Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer"

James Ellroy, Writer

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