Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

Similar topics:Anime Art Games Movie Music Poetry

"I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I kind of like the direct connection with the fans, actually, it's pretty neat"

David Cronenberg, Director

"It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway"

George Murray, Poet

"I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted"

David Friedman, Musician

"The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract"

Bob Edwards, Journalist

"It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished"

David Lloyd, Artist

"I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism, in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer?"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now"

David Lloyd, Artist

"King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"I think people should be consumers of journalism"

Andrew Vachss, Author

"Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"Part of the plot was a knock that V wanted to bring down the government and bring chaos. I don't know why I thought of Guy Fawkes, because it was during the summer. I thought that would be great if he looked like Guy Fawkes, kind of theatrical"

David Lloyd, Artist

"But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years"

David Lloyd, Artist

"Public radio has always been so powerless"

Bob Edwards, Journalist

"I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure"

David Friedman, Musician

"I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year"

David Friedman, Musician

"There may be writing groups where people meet, but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"I can't keep up with Stephen King's output"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine"

David Friedman, Musician

"We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"I don't take advances for my books"

Andrew Vachss, Author

"The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that?"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"For some reason, when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print"

Ashley Scott, Actress

"The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie"

Andrew Vachss, Author

Page 63 of 130