Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"When I went to college, I took a creative writing class, and decided in a week to be a writer"

David Guterson, Author

"I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It Simply increased my sense of being challenged"

David Guterson, Author

"Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it"

David Guterson, Author

"The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form"

Penelope Lively, Author

"Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going"

Penelope Lively, Author

"I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume"

Shelby Foote, Author

"My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff!"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands"

Alan Rickman, Actor

"You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically"

Hector Elizondo, Actor

"I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic"

Isabel Allende, Writer

"I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts"

David Guterson, Author

"I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that"

David Guterson, Author

"Fiction is socially meaningful"

David Guterson, Author

"One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside"

Carly Simon, Musician

"When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars"

David Guterson, Author

"My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit"

David Guterson, Author

"At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices"

David Guterson, Author

"I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block"

David Guterson, Author

"Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful"

Philip K. Dick, Writer

"I'd wanted to be a writer, and when I came back to New York, worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are!"

David Guterson, Author

"I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit"

Elia Kazan, Director

"As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

"I would defy people to find a more beautifully developed character than Seven of Nine"

Jeri Ryan, Actress

"Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go"

Cornelia Funke, Author

"With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension, and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again"

Chaim Potok, Author

"I will try to write books until I drop dead"

Cornelia Funke, Author

"When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks"

Dean Koontz, Author

"I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it"

Dean Koontz, Author

"I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others"

Dean Koontz, Author

"The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal"

Elia Kazan, Director

"As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it"

Chaim Potok, Author

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people"

Dean Koontz, Author

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