Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else"

Grace Paley, Writer

"In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels"

Gerald Clarke, Politician

"The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief"

Fred Saberhagen, Author

"I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time"

Fred Saberhagen, Author

"Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously"

Gerald Clarke, Politician

"This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one"

Diana Wynne Jones, Writer

"Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up"

Emm Gryner, Musician

"Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living"

Donald Davis, Author

"When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book"

David McCullough, Historian

"I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber"

David McCullough, Historian

"A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. A camera turning"

Paul Muni, Actor

"For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo"

Nicholson Baker, Novelist

"In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too"

Frank Rich, Journalist

"I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody"

Michael McKean, Actor

"I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"There are lots of stories about my culture, that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here, that I think need to be done"

Joe Morton, Actor

"Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization"

Edmund White, Novelist

"I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic, and realism my experimental technique"

Edmund White, Novelist

"It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things, but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written"

Ferdinand Mount, Writer

"It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention"

Brendan Gill, Critic

"This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more"

David Eddings, Author

"In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"For me, a thriller is a very carefully structured story"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know"

C. S. Forester, Novelist

"The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day"

C. S. Forester, Novelist

"I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this"

C. S. Forester, Novelist

"A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts"

C. S. Forester, Novelist

"I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond"

Bob Kane, Artist

"I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general"

Bob Kane, Artist

"How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?"

Bob Kane, Artist

"I didn't want to write a biographie romancee, especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be"

Edmund White, Novelist

"Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great"

Edmund White, Novelist

"I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story"

Desmond Dekker, Musician

"Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians"

Jhumpa Lahiri, Author

"I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up"

Jhumpa Lahiri, Author

"As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand"

James Payn, Novelist

"And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better, in respect to prose"

James Payn, Novelist

"All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today"

Mark Crispin Miller, Journalist

"Developing a series is a next step for me"

Christy Romano, Actress

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