Ryan North Quotes

You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too.

Ryan North

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Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.

Madison Smartt Bell
- People
- Good
- Writing
As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

Fede Alvarez
- People
- Writing
- Movie
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

Ed Sheeran
- Writing
- Weird
- Write
The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

Patrick deWitt
- Work
- Thinking
- Writing
Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.

Kate Atkinson
- Writing
- Character
- Weird
I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.

Edmund White