Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Jorge Luis Borges

"Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"Don't hate the media, become the media"

Jello Biafra, Musician

Jello Biafra

"The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part 'cause I get to make up the stories"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

J.B. Priestley

"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

J.B. Priestley

"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning"

Maya Angelou, Poet

Maya Angelou

"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure"

Horace, Poet

"Hemingway's remarks are not literature"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"Satire is a lesson, parody is a game"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

Vladimir Nabokov

"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"The waste basket is the writer's best friend"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"You write a hit the same way you write a flop"

Alan Jay Lerner, Dramatist

"Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for"

Aaron Sorkin, Producer

"An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful"

Roberta Williams, Designer

"The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time"

Frank Miller, Artist

"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate"

Elizabeth George, Author

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books, they say there must be something wrong with this fellow"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

J.B. Priestley

"The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"Good writing is like a windowpane"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit"

Richard Bach, Novelist

Richard Bach

"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life"

Henry James, Writer

Henry James

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

Alfred North Whitehead

"The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi"

Beth Henley, Playwright

Beth Henley

"I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end"

Truman Capote, Novelist

Truman Capote

"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself"

Marcel Proust, Author

Marcel Proust

"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes"

Agatha Christie, Writer

Agatha Christie

"The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

Stephen Sondheim

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