Writing Quotes
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I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.
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There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.
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The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.
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I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.
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Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.
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My feeling is that writing Fantasy should be harder - not easier - than writing any other kind of fiction.
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Writing plays fast and loose with the past.
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The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
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Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
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Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.
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Less is more.
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Don't worry about what anyone else thinks - write what you must.
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I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.
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I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.
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I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.
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I believe the term "blog" means more than an online journal. I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs to read AND write, not just consume.
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Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is explore. I want to see what people would do. I say, 'What would this person do in this situation?' and I write it down. I'm not writing manifestos of my political views.
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I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.
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A lot of writing depends on being comfortable around the people you work with. I want it to feel like I'm working with friends.
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I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing.
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Oswald Chambers writes, ‘Never make a principle out of your experience; let God be as original with other people as He is with you.’ To that I would add, ‘Be careful not to turn others’ lives into the mold for your own.’ Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.
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Don’t ever stop writing. This is the way the world will find out who you are.
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Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.
