Writing Quotes
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The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but it isn't political. It really was important for me to not have a political agenda at all, because I have a hard time stomaching any political fiction that feels message-y.
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There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.
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I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.
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I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.
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What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? Suspend your disbelief? Take a leap of faith? After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack?
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The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
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I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.
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Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
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Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.
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I continue to write. It's just one of those things that I do. I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore and that's no good.
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On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
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I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.
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One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.
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I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.
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When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner.
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I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.
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To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
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So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.
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One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
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Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.
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Somebody told me I should try writing. Actually, a lot of people tried to get me to try writing, long before I thought I was 'the writing type'.
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It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.
