Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it"

Arthur Herzog, Novelist

"You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And it's forced me to address that"

Anthony Minghella, Director

"The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set"

Andrew Sullivan, Journalist

"I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished"

Alistair Maclean, Novelist

"It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase, the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart"

Alfred de Vigny, Poet

"Right now, I'm writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day"

Anita Diament, Author

"I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets"

Anita Diament, Author

"After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"And eventually, as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me, but a version of me"

Larry David, Actor

"Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about"

Jackie Collins, Author

"Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about!"

Jackie Collins, Author

"Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them"

Syd Barrett, Musician

"Fairy-tales are nice"

Syd Barrett, Musician

"I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read!"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book!"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers!"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins"

Jackie Collins, Author

"Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that"

Jackie Collins, Author

"Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer"

Jenny Agutter, Actress

"Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!"

Iain Banks, Writer

"As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of"

Iain Banks, Writer

"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really"

Iain Banks, Writer

"Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels"

Charles Perrault, Author

"You write about what you know"

Larry David, Actor

"I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then, I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book"

Jeffrey Archer, Politician

"I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now"

Jeffrey Archer, Politician

"I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison"

Jeffrey Archer, Politician

"Well, I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel"

Jeffrey Archer, Politician

"I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand"

Joanna Southcott, Celebrity

"It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with"

John Harrison, Inventor

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