Writing Quotes
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I write in order to belong.
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The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.
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It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.
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I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
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I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
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When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.
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I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting.
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You fail only if you stop writing.
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It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.
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Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.
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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.
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Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
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If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one person didn't type that one word, would the future's history be changed? Dose their one word even mean anything? Dose my one (times a lot) word mean anything? Dose that one person's one word even get read-once? If I wasn't sitting here writing my words, would my future be different?
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Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’
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When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.
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I began writing as an experimental writer.
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I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I feel about the issues of the day, but I guess I don't want to write essays in my head about my craft and maybe it's because I teach and talk about craft of other writers as a reader. I feel the moment I start doing that is when it's going to kill me.
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I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.
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I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.
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I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.
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It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.
