Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays"

Mark Rylance, Actor

"I was quite a reader before I became a writer"

Tom T. Hall, Musician

"I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it"

Tom T. Hall, Musician

"But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms"

Dan Simmons, Author

"But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half"

Stanley Tucci, Actor

"I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books"

Sergio Aragones, Cartoonist

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill"

Tom T. Hall, Musician

"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature!"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me"

Peter Benchley, Author

"Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote"

Stanley Tucci, Actor

"With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues"

Sergio Aragones, Cartoonist

"I've never written a book before"

Keith Emerson, Musician

"If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

"I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy, but a lot less expensive"

Norma McCorvey, Celebrity

"The End of the Affair is almost like a play"

Neil Jordan, Director

"I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list"

Ann Patchett, Author

"People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences"

Richard Thompson, Musician

"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are"

Jonathan Coe, Novelist

"Whereas, with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience"

John Pomfret

"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one"

John Irving, Novelist

"Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is"

John Irving, Novelist

"More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It Strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina"

John Irving, Novelist

"I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography"

John Irving, Novelist

"My stories are never quite good enough"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

"I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

"But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

"I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it"

Ann Patchett, Author

"I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy"

John Barton, Poet

"O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible"

Gabriel Byrne, Actor

"If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded"

William Joyce, Author

"The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer"

Russell Banks, Author

"Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for"

Russell Banks, Author

"But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain, who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art"

Russell Banks, Author

"I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript"

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Writer

"A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it"

Mary A. Ward

"It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council"

Jonathan Franzen, Novelist

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