Writing Quotes
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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 started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
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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.
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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Write what you care about.
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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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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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Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.
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I started writing every day. I never stopped.
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If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.
