Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story"

Julie Taymor, Director

"We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now"

Julie Taymor, Director

"King Pellinore, that time, followed the Questing Beast"

Thomas Malory, Author

"Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"Write what you care about"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own"

Carol Burnett, Actress

"I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything"

Patton Oswalt, Comedian

"The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"But my problem with fantasy and horror and related genres is that sometimes the problems are illogical"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper"

Olive Schreiner, Writer

"The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"Writings scatter to the winds, blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating!"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"I'm a daydreamer"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"I began reading science fiction before I was 12, and started writing science fiction around the same time"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that, fortunately, hasn't proved to be the case, and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific"

Jeff Bridges, Actor

"The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved"

Marge Piercy, Writer

"A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"The words of the world want to make sentences"

Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher

"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books"

Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher

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