Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it"

James Ellroy, Writer

"Writing that's not working for a living"

Robert Asprin, Author

"Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn"

Tim Cahill, Athlete

"What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can"

Sue Grafton, Novelist

"Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man"

Vincente Minnelli, Director

"No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it"

Tom Araya, Musician

"I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write"

Tom Araya, Musician

"Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it"

Patrick Warburton, Actor

"I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people"

Amanda Burton, Actress

"And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence"

William Peter Blatty, Writer

"If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead"

Kit Williams, Author

"I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future"

Kathy Mattea, Musician

"Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly"

Harold Ross, Editor

"It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity"

Ferdinand Christian Baur, Theologian

"If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough"

Shel Silverstein, Poet

"The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation"

Leslie Charteris, Writer

"It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"I've been at this for 40 years. And as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough"

Stephen Greenblatt, Critic

"I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about"

Stephen Greenblatt, Critic

"I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition"

Sharon Gless, Actress

"I write the way I write"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had"

Raymond E. Feist, Author

"There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician, and have gone downhill since"

Raymond E. Feist, Author

"Why the hell can't people just write nice happy stories about people having happy sex? That's what I want, and I bet a whole bunch of other people want it too"

Phil Foglio, Cartoonist

"We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking notes the whole time. Then I do a rough layout of the issue, showing what happens on each page. Then we discuss that some more"

Phil Foglio, Cartoonist

"The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on"

Patrick White, Author

"Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for"

Rex Stout, Writer

"Everything in a story should be credible"

Rex Stout, Writer

"Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful"

Rex Stout, Writer

"I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job"

Poppy Z. Brite, Author

"I think the story is my form"

Joseph Epstein, Writer

"A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two"

Will Eisner, Cartoonist

"What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place"

Stephen Greenblatt, Critic

"I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing"

Stephen Greenblatt, Critic

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