Meg Cabot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
-
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
-
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
-
Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
-
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
-
Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.
-
I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.
-
I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
-
My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
-
Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.
-
When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.
-
I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
-
Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.
-
In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.
-
Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
-
The only time my workout goes a little haywire is when I'm travelling.
-
At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.
-
I associated excellence in writing with New York City.
-
Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
-
I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his children.
-
The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors.
-
In the start-up setting and in most companies, the output is action-oriented. You need to be getting things done and making decisions, often with limited information.
-
In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.
-
Writing is a workout, just like going for a run!
