Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book"

John M. Ford, Writer

"I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can"

Alexis Bledel, Actress

"Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me"

Tom Berenger, Actor

"I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"I used the dictionary very minimally, and I just wrote how I speak. And I speak very hateful manner, usually. I constantly did that because I think the fans would get more out of it if they understood exactly what I'm saying - exactly where I'm coming from"

Kerry King, Musician

"All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there, and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done"

Martin Short, Actor

"It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week"

Ted Shackelford, Actor

"The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do"

Ted Shackelford, Actor

"The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating"

John M. Ford, Writer

"The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean"

John M. Ford, Writer

"The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues"

John M. Ford, Writer

"I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made"

John M. Ford, Writer

"Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story"

Oliver North, Soldier

"Hamlet is a little daunting"

Kyle MacLachlan, Actor

"Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth"

Isaac Disraeli, Writer

"There is always drama and there will always be drama, but it's the way it's presented in my head that makes it so interesting. Everyone gets their time in the middle of the drama"

Josh Schwartz, Producer

"We don't hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know, and because the dynamics of the show are going to change"

Josh Schwartz, Producer

"I want every character be an outsider in some way"

Josh Schwartz, Producer

"I am sure that no traveler, seeing things through author spectacles, can see them as they are"

Harriet Martineau, Writer

"Oh, I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show"

David Selby, Actor

"An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing"

David Selby, Actor

"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others"

Ted Nelson, Author

"So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?"

Ted Nelson, Author

"One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story"

David Selby, Actor

"I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go"

David Selby, Actor

"Writing is an incredibly lonely job"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations, regardless of their merit"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one"

Herbert Bayard Swope, Editor

"The problem is, when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"I have done some short pieces that are not horror"

Richard King, Director

"In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative, after all"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need"

Piers Anthony, Writer

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