Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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Nora Roberts, Author

"I was willing to do anything that Chris Carter wrote"

Megan Gallagher, Actress

"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over"

Margaret Haddix, Author

"It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want"

Margaret Haddix, Author

"After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months"

Margaret Haddix, Author

"I've been writing full-time since 1978"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in"

Yancy Butler, Actress

"In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read"

Susie Bright, Writer

"In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth"

Peter Matthiessen, Writer

"I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail"

Peter Matthiessen, Writer

"I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions"

Tina Brown, Editor

"Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish"

John Jakes, Writer

"So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in"

Sean Penn, Actor

"The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon"

Margaret Haddix, Author

"I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade"

Margaret Haddix, Author

"Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it"

Margaret Haddix, Author

"There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears, and is picked up by a man"

Julie Walters, Actress

"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate"

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Lawyer

"Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!"

Frank Iero, Musician

"I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something"

Fiona Apple, Musician

"Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me"

Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress

"What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it"

Michael Chabon, Author

"It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections"

Michael Chabon, Author

"Every time another review comes out, I let out a deep breath"

Michael Chabon, Author

"You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really"

Janet Suzman, Actress

"William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time"

James Dickey, Novelist

"That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution"

Michael Chabon, Author

"I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image"

Michael Chabon, Author

"As soon as I read that, it clicked: That's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place"

Michael Chabon, Author

"It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls"

Mary MacLane, Writer

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