Arts, Media & Entertainment: Writing Quotes

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"That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns"

Daniel Okrent, Editor

"I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction"

Frederik Pohl, Writer

"So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well"

Billy Sherwood, Musician

"Only in your imagination can you revise"

Fay Wray, Actress

"In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it"

Frederik Pohl, Writer

"From beginning to end, it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into"

Helen Dunmore, Poet

"There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All they're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines"

Fran Drescher, Actress

"A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day!"

Jim Bishop, Journalist

"I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow, there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters"

Jeremy Northam, Actor

"One tends to write beyond what's needed"

James Schuyler, Poet

"The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"Will the reader turn the page?"

Catherine Drinker Bowen, Writer

"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word"

Catherine Drinker Bowen, Writer

"Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it"

Bill Mumy, Actor

"The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them"

Douglas Sirk, Director

"Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier"

Louise Bogan, Poet

"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing"

Iris DeMent, Musician

"I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great"

Jack Dempsey, Athlete

"Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult!"

Bryan Ferry, Musician

"It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people"

Claude Chabrol, Director

"The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism"

Chuck Klosterman, Critic

"The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream"

Henryk Sienkiewicz, Novelist

"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately"

Helen Dunmore, Poet

"The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free"

Frank Murphy, Politician

"I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me"

Caroline B. Cooney, Writer

"I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... And memory is important"

Judy Collins, Musician

"Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors"

James Laughlin, Poet

"Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of"

James Laughlin, Poet

"To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before"

Chuck Klosterman, Critic

"People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research"

Frederik Pohl, Writer

"Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff"

Carl Reiner, Actor

"I've heard people say, 'I love how the characters never say what they're really thinking, and I love how things are so open-ended and you just never know what's going to happen.' Do you know what I mean? So it's an opinion, you know? I've heard very few, if any, criticisms of the show, and I think that it obviously is working, whatever we're doing"

Elizabeth Moss, Actress

"My characters always like themselves"

Amy Sedaris, Actress

"I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table"

Donnie Wahlberg, Actor

"The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times"

Davy Jones, Musician

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