Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away"

Jerry Pournelle, Journalist

"Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best"

Jerry Pournelle, Journalist

"With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights"

Kate Bush, Musician

"And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"Like so many writers, I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone"

John Cheever, Writer

"In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years"

Mac Davis, Musician

"We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

"But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

"The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent"

Juan Goytisolo, Poet

"In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony"

Juan Goytisolo, Poet

"Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it"

John Hersey, Writer

"Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness"

John Cheever, Writer

"For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty"

John Cheever, Writer

"On a daily basis, there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there"

Jim Lehrer, Journalist

"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories"

Jim Lehrer, Journalist

"The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority"

Marie de France, Poet

"You don't teach information in a writing workshop"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals"

Juan Goytisolo, Poet

"The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later"

William Jackson

"It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there"

William Jackson

"I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario"

Stephen Malkmus, Musician

"Bad literature is a form of treason"

Joseph Brodsky, Poet

"There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves"

John M. Ford, Writer

"Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"At present, I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever"

Ted Nelson, Author

"The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early"

Hunter Tylo, Actress

"I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale"

Piers Anthony, Writer

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