Will Eisner Quotes
I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.
Quotes to Explore
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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If you can write it, I can be it.
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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I'm not a great writer.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
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I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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Certain teams are more careful in what they write. They generate less bugs. You can know that but it still doesn't mean there might be there might not be one bug that would be bad to ship the product with.
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I write about things, recent experiences, people around me, some not so affectionately. I’d like to think I’m a little past writing about beer and chicks - unless it’s about my wife, who is a cool chick.
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The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother to show it to my agent or editor. He's a truly great writer - author of Gates of the Alamo and other books you might know of, and his instincts about what's working in a story, and what's not, are just about perfect. My books would be very different without his influence.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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Social media is not the same in 2013 as it was in 2003 - or even 2008 or 2011. You didn't carry around AOL chat in your pocket or look at it when you were in class.
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I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.
