Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished"

Roland Barthes, Critic

Roland Barthes

"We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

Nikki Giovanni

"It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

J. Michael Straczynski

"I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

J. Michael Straczynski

"Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

J. Michael Straczynski

"My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"For the creation of a masterwork of literature, two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment"

Matthew Arnold, Poet

Matthew Arnold

"The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

Raymond Chandler

"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

Raymond Chandler

"At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

Raymond Chandler

"The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

Robert Benchley

"There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge"

Erica Jong, Novelist

Erica Jong

"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

Rita Mae Brown

"Writers will happen in the best of families"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

Rita Mae Brown

"The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

Raymond Chandler

"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

Raymond Chandler

"Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

Margaret Fuller

"The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

Margaret Fuller

"Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

Raymond Chandler

"Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

Raymond Chandler

"A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

Raymond Chandler

"I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am"

Erica Jong, Novelist

Erica Jong

"If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present, then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

Robert Benchley

"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

"So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

"I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out"

Alan Bennett, Dramatist

Alan Bennett

"In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

"I'm a fairly undisciplined writer"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

"I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

"I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

"I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

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