Writing Quotes
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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 only leads to more writing.
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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
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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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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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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've honestly always been an overly analytical, highly observant person. I was playing music but thinking about it at same time, which was sort of exhausting. Aside from the pain of writing - you're not really in a gang like you are in band, it's a little bit lonelier - I think it was always something that I'd wanted to do. So the transition wasn't abrupt or painful.
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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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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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Write what you care about.
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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.
