Writing Quotes
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If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.
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Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.
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Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.
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A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn't read and write. And my dad was very proud of me.
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I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
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It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.
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I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard against it. If I have difficulties in the writing, I just go and do other things. I don't feel a compulsion to write.
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The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
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Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
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I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.
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I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.
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Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.
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I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.
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If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
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I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
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I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.
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I'm very selective about what I write about, and whom I write about, and how much I write about somebody.
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Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.
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A lot of music for me was about - I mean aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really good friends with my bandmates - getting to perform.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
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I write for myself things that I've gone through.
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The only reason to write is from love.
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There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make the most of myself.
