Writing Quotes

With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.

Jacqueline Woodson
- Time
- Different
- Done
When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories, I didn't go back to poetry, partially because I felt like I understood how incredibly difficult it was.

Elizabeth McCracken
- Writing
- College
- Poetry

I was writing a contemporary take on Paul's vision of Christ on the road to Damascus, but with a guy driving a Bus load of tourists.

Stuart Adamson Big Country
- Vision
- Christ
- Paul
Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

Paddy Chayefsky
- Good
- Work
- Thinking
My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.

Adam Mansbach
- Writing
- Job
- Treat
What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

John Connolly
- Good
- Trying
- Bad
By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph.

Yannis Philippakis
- Time
- Exciting
- Paragraph
In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept writing songs, but it wasn't anything that was up the Heartbreakers tree, I didn't think - and I don't think they did, either. So I kept writing songs for the hell of it, but I didn't want to make a record just for the sake of making a record.

Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- Up
- Focus
- Tree