Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"In approaching our subject, it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him, but I think right now he's not spoken of enough"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater"

Judi Dench, Actress

"The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised"

Mark Millar, Writer

"The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor"

Mark Millar, Writer

"Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers, and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence"

Mark Millar, Writer

"Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine"

Mark Millar, Writer

"I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted"

Mark Millar, Writer

"I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling"

Mark Millar, Writer

"I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts"

Mark Millar, Writer

"I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other, and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love, like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy"

Mark Millar, Writer

"I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance"

Mark Millar, Writer

"I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics"

Mark Millar, Writer

"At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists"

Mark Millar, Writer

"It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"I'll take any story if it's good"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield, whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write"

William Cobbett, Politician

"The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was, in fact, to some extent a passing one"

F. H. Bradley, Philosopher

"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink"

F. H. Bradley, Philosopher

"Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the North American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000"

Mark Millar, Writer

"He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue"

George Lucas, Director

"In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading, but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling"

Gabriel Macht, Actor

"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know"

Mario Vargas Llosa, Writer

"For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up"

Rumer Godden, Novelist

"Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal"

Martin Amis, Author

"Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story"

Alice Munro, Writer

"Writing novels is the most exciting"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are"

Robert Cormier, Author

"I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody"

Peter Bichsel, Writer

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