Writing Quotes
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I write for myself things that I've gone through.
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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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Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.
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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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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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Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.
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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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I started writing every day. I never stopped.
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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.
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What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of day and it doesn't matter a fig.
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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 write what I write, say what I say, 'cause I feel what I feel, and if I did it different, it would make me a liar! So I'd rather be an honest person than a good liar.
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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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I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.
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Write what you love and love what you write.
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I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.
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Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.
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I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing momentum - and I kind of pull it together at the end, but by then I think it's just all over. It's become almost a running joke among my agent and my editor - I always say that, so they don't take me seriously anymore.
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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 only leads to more writing.
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Write what you care about.
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Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.
