Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"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

"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

"Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know"

Sarah Vowell, Author

"The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it"

Zane Grey, Author

"Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me"

Zane Grey, Author

"You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us, and once things are in the divine order as they happen"

Nia Long, Actress

"I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity"

Edward Gorey, Author

"One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself"

Christopher Isherwood, Author

"I've always enjoyed writing; I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism"

Michael York, Actor

"I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them"

Kevin J. Anderson, Author

"However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously"

Wally Lamb, Author

"Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world"

Vincent Canby, Critic

"Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living"

Tracy Kidder, Author

"A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized"

Suzanne Vega, Musician

"A story is told as much by silence as by speech"

Susan Griffin, Writer

"I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people"

Shawn Colvin, Artist

"So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research"

Rose Tremain, Novelist

"I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled"

Richard E. Grant, Actor

"We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment"

Paul Haggis, Director

"English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market"

Norman Spinrad, Author

"As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature"

Cao Yu, Playwright

"I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life"

Margaret Forster, Author

"I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside"

Stieg Larsson, Author

"I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it"

Richard Brautigan, Writer

"Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years"

Lord Alfred Douglas, Poet

"For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life"

Cao Yu, Playwright

"I wear my pen as others do their sword"

John Oldham, Celebrity

"Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language"

John Milius, Director

"The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty"

Dylan Moran, Comedian

"Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad"

Julius Schwartz, Editor

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