Writing Quotes

My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.

Dav Pilkey
- Good
- Children
- She
When you write songs, you're writing little bits here, little bits there.

Albert Hammond, Jr.
- Writing

For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.

Kate Grenville
- Writing
- Book
- Knowledge
It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.

Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
- Time
- Good
- Long
When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.

Walter O'Brien
- Family
- Pretty
- Space
There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.

Ramez Naam
- Different
- May
- Want
You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.

Christopher Bollen
- Trying
- Reader
- Puzzles
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
- Writing
- Mind
- Know