Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it, having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating, by the way, to write a book"

Sela Ward, Actress

"But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down"

Russell Banks, Author

"I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!"

Robert B. Parker, Writer

"I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion"

Patrick Marber, Writer

"I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve"

Jane Asher, Actress

"Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did"

Mort Walker, Artist

"I don't see the world unless I see it in ink"

Jewel Kilcher, Musician

"One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one"

James Gunn, Writer

"I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative"

James Gunn, Writer

"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity"

Peter Straub, Writer

"If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"We also quoted Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, acknowledging that Rove did speak to Cooper, late on the week prior to the article coming out, which would have been July 10 or 11"

Michael Isikoff, Journalist

"Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources"

Michael Isikoff, Journalist

"The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it"

Marguerite Moreau, Actress

"I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it"

Lucinda Williams, Musician

"We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them"

Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress

"From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us"

David Antin, Poet

"But it's not just a game of finding literary references"

Dan Simmons, Author

"My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history"

Russell Banks, Author

"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline"

Peter Benchley, Author

"At first, my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with"

Orhan Pamuk, Novelist

"It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing"

Neil Jordan, Director

"For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on"

Neil Jordan, Director

"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me"

Jonathan Coe, Novelist

"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it"

Jonathan Coe, Novelist

"It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely"

Jonathan Coe, Novelist

"Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels"

John Sladek, Author

"Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself, you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement"

Raymond Queneau, Poet

"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey"

Raymond Queneau, Poet

"Writers are not always right, however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything, and it's terrible"

William Devane, Actor

"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"He wasn't sure exactly which day, but what's noteworthy about that is, that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14"

Michael Isikoff, Journalist

"I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove"

Mark Rylance, Actor

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