Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block"

Mary Garden

"The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire), politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day!"

Robert Hass, Poet

"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"Literature precedes genre"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"I spend a lot of time writing in New York"

Keren Ann, Musician

"I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books"

John Keegan, Historian

"I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists"

Jack Herer, Activist

"Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist"

James Ellroy, Writer

"I get a great high from writing"

Walter Hill, Director

"You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart"

Tony Hillerman, Author

"I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so"

Frank McCourt, Author

"I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book"

Frank McCourt, Author

"First of all, there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family"

Frank McCourt, Author

"I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class"

Jena Malone, Actress

"And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven"

Jena Malone, Actress

"For a writer, it's very attractive to stay in one world for a time"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since"

Sue Grafton, Novelist

"Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think"

Walter Smith, Athlete

"For TV, I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior, because of the intimacy of the character, based on David Chase's brilliant writing"

Dominic Chianese, Actor

"Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote"

Tanith Lee, Writer

"Now I can't wait to write my next play"

Scott Caan, Actor

"Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious"

William Shatner, Actor

"They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right"

Robert Scheer, Journalist

"The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that"

Robert Scheer, Journalist

"It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it"

Jules Shear, Musician

"There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it"

Chuck Todd, Journalist

"No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths"

Jena Malone, Actress

"Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?"

Tanith Lee, Writer

"People are always the start for me... Animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... These are all people to me"

Tanith Lee, Writer

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