Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"Writers are always selling somebody out"

Joan Didion, Author

"I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing"

Joan Didion, Author

"I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter"

Bob Seger, Musician

"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read"

Charles Churchill, Poet

"I'm not trying to stump anybody... It's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in"

Buddy Holly, Musician

"Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest"

Charles Churchill, Poet

"There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before"

Terri Windling, Artist

"Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around"

Terri Windling, Artist

"When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into"

Terri Windling, Artist

"A good novel editor is invisible"

Terri Windling, Artist

"The temple of art is built in words"

J. G. Holland, Novelist

"I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past"

Terri Windling, Artist

"The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it"

Terri Windling, Artist

"There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way"

Terri Windling, Artist

"Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know"

Terri Windling, Artist

"I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it"

Terri Windling, Artist

"Talent is like a faucet, while it is open one must write"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (Everyone has a brain, I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I listen to music constantly while writing"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"To mankind in general, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Shakespeare is universal"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately, the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books, so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it!"

Roald Dahl, Novelist

"There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not"

Roald Dahl, Novelist

"People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world, the more you appreciate a paper like the Times, where its family continues to invest in editorial quality, and I think it's the. Truly is the best paper in the world"

David Talbot, Journalist

"Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products"

David Talbot, Journalist

"Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out"

David Talbot, Journalist

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