Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

Edsger Dijkstra

"James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

Tom Stoppard

"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

Tom Stoppard

"It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir"

Henry Miller, Writer

Henry Miller

"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary"

Henry Miller, Writer

Henry Miller

"Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern"

Henry Miller, Writer

Henry Miller

"Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

Dale Carnegie

"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are"

Alice Walker, Author

Alice Walker

"Fiction is life with the dull bits left out"

Clive James, Author

Clive James

"The central problem of novel-writing is causality"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Jorge Luis Borges

"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Jorge Luis Borges

"Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Jorge Luis Borges

"The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"Kafka: Cries of Helplessness in Twenty Powerful Volumes"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme"

Henry James, Writer

Henry James

"I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, he, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"I would very much like to become a best-selling author"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"As a rule, one should never place form over content"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"Writers are not meant for action"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"My pleasure was to copy, not to create"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day"

Richard Price, Writer

Richard Price

"I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam"

Richard Price, Writer

Richard Price

"I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions"

Richard Price, Writer

Richard Price

"If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes"

Richard Price, Writer

Richard Price

"I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do"

Richard Price, Writer

Richard Price

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