Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom"

Geoffrey Rush, Actor

"I make time to write"

Stanley Tucci, Actor

"We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry"

James Laughlin, Poet

"I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date"

Mike Gordon, Musician

"My next book is Scene by Scene: As Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that"

Fay Wray, Actress

"I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one"

Daniel Okrent, Editor

"It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project"

David Crystal, Educator

"Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is!"

Daniel Okrent, Editor

"Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write"

Joan D. Vinge, Author

"I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it"

Joan D. Vinge, Author

"Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists, even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction"

Joan D. Vinge, Author

"So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine"

Jeff Vandermeer, Writer

"I'm very involved in the writing on every level"

Fran Drescher, Actress

"That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story"

John Goodman, Actor

"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender"

Jim Bishop, Journalist

"I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant"

Joan D. Vinge, Author

"It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way"

Leonard Baskin, Artist

"Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves"

Jesse James Garrett, Businessman

"The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations"

Henry Villard, Journalist

"I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book!"

Kathie Lee Gifford, Entertainer

"Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling"

Jeremy Northam, Actor

"Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs"

Henry Villard, Journalist

"Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect, but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers"

Leslie Stephen, Author

"It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade"

Hugh Mackay, Writer

"I was always influenced by language"

Helen Dunmore, Poet

"I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there"

Helen Dunmore, Poet

"I enjoy research; in fact, research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all"

Helen Dunmore, Poet

"However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned"

Helen Dunmore, Poet

"Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer"

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist

"Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title"

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist

"I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me"

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist

"Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people"

Fannie Flagg, Author

"Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me"

Iris DeMent, Musician

"Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist"

George Saintsbury, Writer

"But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time"

George Saintsbury, Writer

"The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction"

Frederik Pohl, Writer

"My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - Science fiction is written according to the science fiction method"

Frederik Pohl, Writer

"I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette"

Frederik Pohl, Writer

"I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others"

Gavin Rossdale, Musician

"At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice"

Chuck Klosterman, Critic

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