Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe"

Margaret Haddix, Author

"I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"The first step in good reporting is good snooping"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing"

Fannie Hurst, Writer

"The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive"

Kim Novak, Actress

"It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from"

Natalie Imbruglia, Musician

"It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear"

Thomas Bulfinch, Writer

"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly"

Vance Packard, Writer

"Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"But George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to"

Lawrence Kasdan, Producer

"Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud"

Ira Glass, Journalist

"The writer's duty is to keep on writing"

William Styron, Novelist

"Let's face it, writing is hell"

William Styron, Novelist

"Life is a means of extracting fiction"

Robert Stone, Novelist

"The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me"

Bruce Cockburn, Musician

"I'm addicted to creating and writing"

Bret Michaels, Musician

"My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus"

Robert Cormier, Author

"I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper"

Robert Cormier, Author

"Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it"

Ben Okri, Poet

"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings"

Ben Okri, Poet

"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare"

Ben Okri, Poet

"In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them"

Peter Davison, Actor

"Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult"

David Ogden Stiers, Actor

"There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"Don't try to write to the trend of the moment"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

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