Writing Quotes
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I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.
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If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
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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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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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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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Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.
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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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Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.
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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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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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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 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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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 you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to 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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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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Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there was no talk about the business, and there was probably a lot more angsty talk back then. But these days maybe there are some more laments about the culture, but I would say no.
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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 tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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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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I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
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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!
