Writing Quotes
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For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
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I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.
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Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.
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It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
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Be...As a page that aches for a word Which speaks on a theme that is timeless
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I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.
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Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.
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The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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My parents' example of a loving, caring relationship, I think, has affected my songwriting a ton and allowed me to start writing love songs that people could connect to without sounding like you're being cheesy, because they're coming from a real place, something that I saw coming up. I think they're a huge influence on my songwriting.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil. I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow.
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I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
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I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my understanding of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties that come along with it.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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With musical theatre, although there are rules, they're so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with writing pop music. The main point is to tell the story. You just have to make sure the character's voice is strong and the storytelling is strong.
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When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.
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I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
