Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"I only write about what I do, what happens to me"

Brownie McGhee, Musician

"I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life"

Armistead Maupin, Novelist

"Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"I don't keep any copy of my books around... They would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them"

Ludwig Bemelmans, Author

"Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns, a big surprise ending, and then usually another surprise at the end, and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end, and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself"

Armistead Maupin, Novelist

"If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young"

Tanith Lee, Writer

"At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer"

Tanith Lee, Writer

"In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today"

Tabitha Soren, Celebrity

"At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality"

Tabitha Soren, Celebrity

"People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting"

Steve Coogan, Comedian

"It's a tough case and the first time Reacher needs to recruit somebody to help him out. He uses a woman he knew in the army; she's a fascinating character"

Lee Child, Writer

"I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence"

Lee Child, Writer

"Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done"

Joe Shuster, Artist

"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great"

Randy West, Entertainer

"Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them"

Randy West, Entertainer

"Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful, and it's an honor, and I feel so humbled, and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book, and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books"

Jhumpa Lahiri, Author

"Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story!"

Jhumpa Lahiri, Author

"I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers"

Armistead Maupin, Novelist

"I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life"

Armistead Maupin, Novelist

"And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting"

John Foster, Architect

"Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction"

Frank Harris, Author

"To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears"

John Foster, Architect

"I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children"

Hugh Lofting, Author

"I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words"

Georges Simenon, Writer

"I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort"

Fred Saberhagen, Author

"Actually, ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor"

Fred Saberhagen, Author

"Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty"

Herbert Gold, Author

"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing"

David McCullough, Historian

"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published"

Greg Egan, Scientist

"A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people"

Greg Egan, Scientist

"I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons"

Tanith Lee, Writer

"I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world"

Tanith Lee, Writer

"I love words"

Susannah McCorkle, Musician

"For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper"

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Author

"Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused"

Joe Klein, Journalist

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