Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor"

Matthew Vaughn, Producer

"When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me"

Margaret Haddix, Author

"I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot"

Ira Glass, Journalist

"Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in"

Susie Bright, Writer

"Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard"

Susie Bright, Writer

"Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly"

Paul Kane, Writer

"You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job"

Nora Roberts, Author

"I loved the process of writing"

Nora Roberts, Author

"I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word"

Nora Roberts, Author

"Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional"

Jessica Lange, Actress

Irvine Welsh, Novelist

"In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them"

Todd Solondz, Writer

"Letters are expectation, packaged in an envelope"

Shana Alexander, Journalist

"The world may be full of fourth-rate writers, but it's also full of fourth-rate readers"

Barbara Walters, Journalist

"I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me"

Len Wein, Cartoonist

"I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort"

Len Wein, Cartoonist

"A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not"

Len Wein, Cartoonist

"I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies"

Jesse Eisenberg, Actor

"It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows"

John Lithgow, Actor

"I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well"

Fareed Zakaria, Journalist

"I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic"

John Shirley, Author

"I am a writer of the textbooks of Scientology"

L. Ron Hubbard, Author

"Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void"

Hervey Allen, Author

"I'm like a junkie for writing"

Gavin DeGraw, Musician

"I enjoy the freedom of the blank page"

Irvine Welsh, Novelist

"I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself"

Irvine Welsh, Novelist

"The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that"

William Greider, Author

"Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case"

Todd Solondz, Writer

"So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny"

Todd Solondz, Writer

"One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them"

Todd Solondz, Writer

"All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time"

Eli Wallach, Actor

"But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair"

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most"

Diane Sawyer, Journalist

"Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful"

Jack Vance, Author

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