Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"You fail only if you stop writing"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

Ray Bradbury

"The press is our chief ideological weapon"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

Nikita Khrushchev

"Literature is the question minus the answer"

Roland Barthes, Critic

Roland Barthes

"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary"

Jessamyn West, Author

Jessamyn West

"Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

Clifford Geertz

"Writing is an antidote for loneliness"

Steven Berkoff, Actor

Steven Berkoff

"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear"

Joan Didion, Author

"I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality: The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey"

Theodore Sturgeon, Writer

"What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?"

Robert Gould Shaw, Soldier

"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way"

E. L. Doctorow, Author

"When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds, it leads"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity"

Scott Turow, Novelist

"The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair"

Herbert Bayard Swope, Editor

"When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them"

Jeffrey Eugenides, Novelist

"And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them"

F. L. Lucas, Critic

"To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart"

Phyllis Theroux, Writer

"Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things"

Art Garfunkel, Musician

"It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done, and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon"

Mark Millar, Writer

"Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating"

Gilbert Highet, Writer

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

Samuel Beckett

"Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

J.B. Priestley

"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"I quote others only in order the better to express myself"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

Michel de Montaigne

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you"

Maya Angelou, Poet

Maya Angelou

"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart"

Maya Angelou, Poet

Maya Angelou

"I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher, but I wasn't that way growing up"

Tony Dungy, Coach

Tony Dungy

"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start, and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"Madame Bovary is myself"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"If the writing is honest, it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

Tennessee Williams

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