Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"I put the words down and push them a bit"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

Evelyn Waugh

"There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen"

Petrarch, Poet

Petrarch

"Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

Evelyn Waugh

"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

Derek Walcott

"Eloquence is the poetry of prose"

William C. Bryant, Poet

"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

Edmund Wilson

"After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter"

Jean Cocteau, Director

Jean Cocteau

"Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs"

Jean Cocteau, Director

Jean Cocteau

"It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

Dan Castellaneta

"I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

Dan Castellaneta

"People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life"

Andre Maurois, Writer

Andre Maurois

"Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

Jean Baudrillard

"Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?"

Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet

"What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you"

Erykah Badu, Musician

Erykah Badu

"I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker"

Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet

"I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views"

Edith Wharton, Author

Edith Wharton

"The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors"

Stella Adler, Actress

Stella Adler

"The trade of authorship is a violent and indestructible obsession"

George Sand, Novelist

George Sand

"Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source, since the Americans are not British in sensibility"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

Wallace Stevens

"As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

Wallace Stevens

"A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers"

Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet

"I've always thought of myself as a reporter"

Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet

"I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge"

Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet

"I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question"

Hugh Leonard, Dramatist

Hugh Leonard

"I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else"

Hugh Leonard, Dramatist

Hugh Leonard

"I think with every writer there are two people there"

Hugh Leonard, Dramatist

Hugh Leonard

"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed"

Hugh Leonard, Dramatist

Hugh Leonard

"I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

Quentin Tarantino

"Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

Quentin Tarantino

"A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

Quentin Tarantino

"When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

Quentin Tarantino

"If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

Quentin Tarantino

"I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer!"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

Quentin Tarantino

"Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions"

John Morley, Statesman

John Morley

"One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines"

Emile Zola, Novelist

Emile Zola

"Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

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