Writing Quotes
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I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.
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It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.
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Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.
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For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.
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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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I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.
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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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I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.
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You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
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I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.
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In live-action, writing, production and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely.
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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.
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The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
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Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
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I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.
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Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.
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The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.
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I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.
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Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.
