Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

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

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"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

"Madame Bovary is myself"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

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

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

Tennessee Williams

"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it"

William Faulkner, Novelist

William Faulkner

"Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

E. M. Forster

"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

E. M. Forster

"The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

E. M. Forster

"Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Jorge Luis Borges

"There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"My ideas usually come not at my desk, writing, but in the midst of living"

Anais Nin, Author

Anais Nin

"I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"Tardiness in literature can make me nervous"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess"

Tracey Emin, Artist

Tracey Emin

"With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end"

Tracey Emin, Artist

Tracey Emin

"A writer writes not because he is educated, but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood"

Leo Rosten, Novelist

Leo Rosten

"Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance"

James Joyce, Novelist

James Joyce

"No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination"

James Joyce, Novelist

James Joyce

"It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open"

Herman Melville, Novelist

Herman Melville

"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"Remarks are not literature"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"My first few plays took place in the South, and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties, but in Louisiana"

Beth Henley, Playwright

Beth Henley

"My fault now is making my plays too short"

Beth Henley, Playwright

Beth Henley

"It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in"

Beth Henley, Playwright

Beth Henley

"It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright"

Beth Henley, Playwright

Beth Henley

"I love writing for the screen"

Beth Henley, Playwright

Beth Henley

"I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays"

Beth Henley, Playwright

Beth Henley

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