Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"Ever since I'm done with Zim, everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero"

Maxwell Anderson, Playwright

"You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"I'm really fascinated and you know, I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques, and why in these practices language is being used in another way"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I mean, once work's out there, it's meant to be used"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I knew what book we had to write; it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"I hate it; it is tedious... When I write for my act, it is very improvisational; I write bullet points; I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style"

Kathy Griffin, Comedian

"First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns"

Robert Creeley, Poet

"And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come"

William Bolcom, Composer

"Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government, and you know it's really the talk for those who have"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"How long it takes to write a book depends on its length"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"I liked Sartre's views but not his writing"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"I am a Moroccan writer of French expression"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through"

Theo Van Gogh, Director

"I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time"

Lalla Ward, Actor

"The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one"

Jeffrey Eugenides, Novelist

"It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants"

Jeffrey Eugenides, Novelist

"As I got farther and farther along in the series, I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell, and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history"

Gilbert Murray, Diplomat

"I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of"

Jerry Pournelle, Journalist

"I'm a fast writer"

Terry McMillan, Author

"The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose"

Samuel McChord Crothers, Writer

"I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time"

Arthur Koestler, Novelist

"A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar"

Arthur Koestler, Novelist

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