Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"I think of myself as a very lazy author"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

"I started writing when I was about 20, 21, maybe"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

"I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

"Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

"American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

"I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it"

Jean Paul, Author

Jean Paul

"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time, your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

Wilfrid Laurier

"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it"

Horace Greeley, Editor

Horace Greeley

"You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

Carl Friedrich Gauss

"People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all"

Annie Dillard, Author

Annie Dillard

"The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write"

Annie Dillard, Author

Annie Dillard

"Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark"

Annie Dillard, Author

Annie Dillard

"I write to understand, as much as to be understood"

Elie Wiesel, Novelist

Elie Wiesel

"Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image"

Martin Bashir, Journalist

Martin Bashir

"Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions"

William E. Gladstone, Leader

William E. Gladstone

"I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

Stephen Fry

"Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

Phillips Brooks

"What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

Kathleen Turner

"Easy reading is damn hard writing"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

Stephen Fry

"A long life in journalism convinced me, many presidents ago, that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

Walter Lippmann

"The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Writing is hard work, and bad for the health"

E. B. White, Writer

"Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free"

Jessamyn West, Author

Jessamyn West

"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking"

Jessamyn West, Author

Jessamyn West

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

Noam Chomsky

"To write well, you must be willing to go naked into the world"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it"

William Golding, Novelist

William Golding

"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"Plot and character are virtually the same thing"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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