Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: Translation is the other side of a tapestry"

Leonardo Sciascia, Writer

"After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper"

Grazia Deledda, Writer

"Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense"

Charles Perrault, Author

"I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader"

Thom Gunn, Poet

"I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up!"

Thom Gunn, Poet

"I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about"

Thom Gunn, Poet

"I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes"

David Steinberg, Comedian

"I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is"

Eric Idle, Comedian

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