Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything about that. We had an ending"

Michael O'Donoghue, Writer

"What genre it falls under is only of interest later"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists"

Donal Henahan

"The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself"

Linda Lavin, Actress

"My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness"

Mary Garden

"I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"I write, I write, I always write"

Tom Araya, Musician

"The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically"

Timothy West, Actor

"I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person"

Joanna Trollope, Novelist

"I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample"

Janice Dickinson, Model

"I have grown in my writing, and I care about it now, and I know how important it is to write stuff"

Charles King, Politician

"Writing a novel is not method acting, and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour"

Bret Easton Ellis, Author

"I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people"

James Ellroy, Writer

"I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers"

James Ellroy, Writer

"Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it"

William Randolph Hearst, Publisher

"I would not want to write something about something I do not think about"

Geezer Butler, Musician

"I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography!"

Stephen Greenblatt, Critic

"Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer"

Simon Callow, Actor

"He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques, really"

Simon Callow, Actor

"I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime"

James Ellroy, Writer

"So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best"

Rex Stout, Writer

"Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten, filtered through a veil of fiction"

Poppy Z. Brite, Author

"There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here"

Gwen Ifill, Journalist

"Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet"

Gwen Ifill, Journalist

"I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

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