Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature"

George Murray, Poet

"I've been with Life now for seventeen years, and I have written several articles for them, and will be doing more writing, and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that"

Kerry King, Musician

"I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling"

George Murray, Poet

"The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis"

William Jackson

"The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters"

Salvatore Quasimodo, Author

"As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible"

Fisher Stevens, Actor

"Metaphor is embodied in language"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition"

Learned Hand, Judge

"You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad"

Harry Dean Stanton, Actor

"Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too"

George Murray, Poet

"Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult"

David Cronenberg, Director

"But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be"

David Cronenberg, Director

"I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"I suppress the vast majority of what I write"

George Murray, Poet

"I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do"

George Murray, Poet

"Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige"

George Murray, Poet

"I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who, on average, watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand"

Ethel Merman, Musician

"I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me, and the time to fill it"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it"

Derek Jacobi, Actor

"I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing"

Casper Van Dien, Actor

"Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in"

Florence King, Writer

"I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color"

Harry Dean Stanton, Actor

"I don't call myself a writer"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

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