Writing Quotes
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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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I've always had a very developed superego. I also had a very powerful id, but there was no ego in the middle. So writing was always like letters sent from the id to the superego, saying, "What's going on here?" What I loved about writing was that I was totally weightless. I was amazed at the fact that I could be myself without being afraid that anyone would get hurt.
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If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
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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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Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.
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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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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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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 write for myself things that I've gone through.
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
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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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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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I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.
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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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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 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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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 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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I started writing every day. I never stopped.
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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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Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
