Writing Quotes
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When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.
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We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.
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You learn a lot, writing fiction.
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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
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Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all.
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Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.
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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
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I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is the point of having one?
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I'm one of those people who has always struggled with emotions and revealing them. When my dog Orson died, I did this very male thing of 'It's just a dog and I'll just move on.' I was very slow to grasp the emotion. But Orson is the reason I started writing about dogs.
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It's much easier to teach writing, because people are less shy about writing. If they're in a group, nobody can see what they're writing. When you're drawing, people get a little more nervous.
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All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
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It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.
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Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.
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Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.
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Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
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Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek out the margins of history and the forgotten tales that illuminate the whole, complex truth of our flawed yet wondrous nature as a species.
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.
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I love writing plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, designers, musicians, actors and audience.
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I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
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What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.
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Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.
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Who are you writing this for? For a commercial reason, or because you want to make great art and give it to your fans?
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I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know that I would keep writing even if no one ever published me again, even if no one ever read me again.
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When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.
