Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue"

Adrien Brody, Actor

"It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines"

Anthony Doerr, Writer

"You have to be very brave in that first writing session"

Barry Mann, Musician

"You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living"

A. E. van Vogt, Author

"You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why"

Anne Perry, Novelist

"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation"

Clifton Fadiman, Writer

"There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot"

L. Sprague de Camp, Author

"Before trying a novel, I wrote a couple of plays"

James Merrill, Poet

"In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness"

Haruki Murakami, Writer

"I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one"

Daniel Pinkwater, Author

"I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how"

Daniel Pinkwater, Author

"I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired"

Zane Grey, Author

"You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done"

Thomas Lennon, Actor

"And that's what I've learned too: writing is key"

Trish Stratus, Entertainer

"When you've finished a piece of work, you've had a kind of love affair with it"

Rose Tremain, Novelist

"The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place"

Rose Tremain, Novelist

"I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along"

Rose Tremain, Novelist

"Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings"

Rose Tremain, Novelist

"The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write"

Roger Ascham, Writer

"He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him"

Roger Ascham, Writer

"Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly"

Paul Haggis, Director

"All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about"

Nigel Kneale, Writer

"Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it"

Karen Allen, Actress

"Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married"

Richard Ford, Author

"And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international"

Irving Langmuir, Scientist

"We are both drawn to surreal situations, so the writing was a joy"

Dylan Moran, Comedian

"Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague"

William Safire, Author

"People don't read bylines"

Julius Schwartz, Editor

"My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again"

Danielle Steel, Novelist

"I started writing stories as a child"

Danielle Steel, Novelist

"I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility; I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling"

Frances Burney, Writer

"But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster"

Brian Lumley, Writer

"And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it"

Brian Lumley, Writer

"Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it"

Adam Clymer, Journalist

"I'm interested in stories and the dark side of people's minds"

Ikue Mori, Musician

"Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history"

Howard Mumford Jones, Writer

"Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun"

Daniel Pinkwater, Author

"Naturally, I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy"

Comte de Lautreamont, Poet

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