Writing Quotes
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I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
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Ooh, look at me, I’m Dave, I’m writing a book! With all my thoughts in it. La la la!
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I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.
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The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
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I used to love 'Jeeves And Wooster.' That theme tune was great. I remember writing to them when I was little to get the music so I could learn it on the piano, and they sent me the sheet music.
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Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building.
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I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
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When I started really writing fantasy, one of the things I noticed was a real absence of sexuality in the genre at all. And it's such a profound part of the human experience that it's a really big thing to leave out.
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When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America.
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Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.
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The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
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I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.
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There's one thing I know for sure: When I'm most opinionated, my writing sucks.
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[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.
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I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.
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People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.
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As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such.
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I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.
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I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection.
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I graduated from my Master of Fine Arts program for writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Of course, for a master's program, you have to do a ton of reading. I would get up, usually around 5:30, to do my reading; otherwise, I would fall behind.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
