Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury"

George Plimpton, Journalist

"Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming"

Holly Johnson, Musician

"Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call"

Bill Walsh, Editor

"It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life"

Helen Garner, Novelist

"There are a couple of things in there, if we're constraining this discussion to horror here"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation"

Don Hewitt, Producer

"When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person"

Daphne du Maurier, Novelist

"I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon"

Corey Haim, Actor

"I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors"

Curtis Sittenfeld, Writer

"I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible"

Joe Klein, Journalist

"I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating"

Curtis Sittenfeld, Writer

"If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect"

Ann Beattie, Writer

"Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman?"

Ann Beattie, Writer

"Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that"

Ann Beattie, Writer

"Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try"

Curtis Sittenfeld, Writer

"If I did anything 'next,' I would do writing"

Ellen Muth, Actress

"Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination"

Bob Kane, Artist

"There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning, at to continue to the end"

C. S. Forester, Novelist

"All autobiography is self-indulgent"

Daphne du Maurier, Novelist

"I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie"

Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist

"A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted"

C. S. Forester, Novelist

"Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. The main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other"

Ann Beattie, Writer

"I think I write about things that are mysterious to me"

Ann Beattie, Writer

"His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it"

Algernon H. Blackwood, Writer

"I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems"

Ben Bradlee, Editor

"He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please"

Bram Stoker, Writer

"Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature"

Gao Xingjian, Novelist

"When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital"

Billy Eckstine, Musician

"Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives"

Bill Walsh, Editor

"All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community"

Anita Diament, Author

"I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone"

August Wilson, Playwright

"When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before"

Arthur Hailey, Novelist

"I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life"

Arthur Hailey, Novelist

"Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed"

Anita Desai, Novelist

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