Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not"

Herbert Bayard Swope, Editor

"My self-editing process is intense"

George Murray, Poet

"I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction"

George Murray, Poet

"People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer, so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it"

Bradley Whitford, Actor

"God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"Basically, I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting"

Bill Bryson, Writer

"In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue"

Bradley Whitford, Actor

"When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years, but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure"

Andrew Vachss, Author

"In Shakespearean tragedy, the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!"

Richard Grant, Author

"Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes"

Ric Ocasek, Musician

"You know I've had work banned"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"I can write anywhere"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts"

Theo Van Gogh, Director

"My stories are character driven"

Terry McMillan, Author

"I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling"

Rory Bremner, Comedian

"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical"

Mos Def, Musician

"Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things that never have been, or are likely to be"

Mary Wortley Montagu, Writer

"Interestingly, that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them"

Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

"I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway, though I suppose there is something inevitable there"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"I do have trouble with titles"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word"

F. L. Lucas, Critic

"Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears"

F. L. Lucas, Critic

"People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller"

Scott Turow, Novelist

"I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working"

Sean Lennon, Musician

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