Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain, but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony"

John Cheever, Writer

"You can do whatever you want with my work"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been"

Jim Lehrer, Journalist

"In Stratford, you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write"

Christopher Plummer, Actor

"I lived to write, and wrote to live"

Samuel Rogers, Poet

"There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't"

John M. Ford, Writer

"It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe"

Michael Landon, Actor

"Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up"

Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

"So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future"

Jerry Pournelle, Journalist

"From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do"

Oliver North, Soldier

"The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"Because the more you write, the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form, and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power"

John Cheever, Writer

"Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation"

John M. Ford, Writer

"I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty"

Hunter Tylo, Actress

"I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways"

Richard King, Director

"SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line"

Desi Arnaz, Actor

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