Writing Quotes
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I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
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I follow only one rule in my writing, and that is to be interesting. If the story is interesting to you, the writer, then it will probably be interesting to somebody else.
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This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to the truth of the story you're trying to tell.
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I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.
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All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
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For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.
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Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
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I took out my journal. I'd been avoiding writing in it. I think I was afraid all my anger would spill out on the pages. And I just didn't want to look at all that rage. It was a different kind of pain. A pain I couldn't stand. I tried not to think. I just started writing.
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Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.
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I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.
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I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.
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I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.
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I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't.
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Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other. With lovely prose that brings vivid life to her characters, she creates a universe with people we care about. This is an author with a gift for fantasy.
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The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.
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I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.
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I never outline my novels before I write. I do have a vague sense of beginning, middle, and end at the outset of each book, but for me, writing has always been a very character-driven process.
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It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it.
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Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.
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When I was young, I was very technical about these things. I didn't like to admit to any intimate relation with what I was writing.
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People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to the bagginess of novel writing, it almost feels like a martial art.
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I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do.
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I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until I was twelve.
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Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.
