Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me"

Billy Bragg, Musician

"All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"Sometimes stories are inherently important, whether or not they have a direct relation to your life"

Linda Vester, Entertainer

"People haven't got the interest in long, long works these days. A lack of interest, which I share"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"If I wrote a play with four characters, every single one of them would talk like me, regardless of age or sex"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity"

George Ade, Playwright

"The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations"

Joseph Pulitzer, Publisher

"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light"

Joseph Pulitzer, Publisher

"I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words"

Joseph Pulitzer, Publisher

"I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people"

Joseph Pulitzer, Publisher

"To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art"

Anthony Burgess, Novelist

"A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual"

Anthony Burgess, Novelist

"My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me"

Irv Kupcinet, Journalist

"The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author"

Scott Turow, Novelist

"The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots"

Scott Turow, Novelist

"Postmodernism cost literature its audience"

Scott Turow, Novelist

"I tend to write in the mornings"

Scott Turow, Novelist

"What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible"

Arthur Golden, Writer

"This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away"

Arthur Golden, Writer

"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha"

Arthur Golden, Writer

"The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing"

Henry James Sumner Maine, Historian

"A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all"

F. L. Lucas, Critic

"I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"I now have to find a reason to write, every single day"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go"

Jerry Pournelle, Journalist

"There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier, and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side, but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner"

Simon Travaglia, Author

"Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend"

Theodore White, Journalist

"I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole"

Ron Chernow, Author

"I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"Geisha, because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction"

Arthur Golden, Writer

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