Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer"

Robert E. Howard, Writer

"Literature is analysis after the event"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer"

Patti Smith, Musician

"It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments"

Robert E. Howard, Writer

"But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality"

Robert E. Howard, Writer

"It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen"

William Bernbach, Businessman

"I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block"

R. L. Stine, Writer

"I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write"

Robert E. Howard, Writer

"Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space"

Rebecca West, Author

"I became a writer in spite of my environments"

Robert E. Howard, Writer

"Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit"

Patti Smith, Musician

"I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen"

Robert E. Howard, Writer

"It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on"

Jack Kerouac, Novelist

"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs"

Rebecca West, Author

"Write in recollection and amazement for yourself"

Jack Kerouac, Novelist

"I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"I write books to find out about things"

Rebecca West, Author

"The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work"

Harold Ramis, Actor