Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"I cover media people the way they cover politicians"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"If people would write exactly what I wanted to read, I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright"

Liev Schreiber, Actor

"When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55"

Robert Cormier, Author

"I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority"

Peter Matthiessen, Writer

"Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession"

Henry R. Luce, Editor

"I wanted more in depth ideas about the character, and it never came"

Nicholas Lea, Actor

"And Garrison Keillor, I think, is a fascinating guy and really entertaining"

Woody Harrelson, Actor

"Most shows, you really have to force it. And everybody's nervous, and the network is nervous, and they've all got their notepads out, and they're all going to give notes on what they think is funny, and everybody's trying to spin their jokes, and this was so - the script was so good that we didn't have to really do anything, and it made it so easy for us to do well"

Will Arnett, Actor

"Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story"

Michael Chabon, Author

"There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of"

Julie Walters, Actress

"Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"I like to think of myself as a storyteller"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down"

Nora Roberts, Author

"I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers of America that offer support, information and networking"

Nora Roberts, Author

"For over a year, I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - The last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American"

Nora Roberts, Author

"I want to get off with the screenwriting"

Obie Trice, Musician

"In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book"

Nora Roberts, Author

"I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started"

Nora Roberts, Author

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