Write Quotes
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The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
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If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here to write their music for them.
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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
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I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.
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I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.
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I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.
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To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.
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It was the enchantment of spoken verse that led me to write for children.
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All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.
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It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.
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Write it down in your own handwriting.
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I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.
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I'm not a very good communicator, so maybe that's why I write about talking.
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I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that we approach the book that we really want to write?
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end.
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If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
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You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.
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Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.
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I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.
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Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.
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When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!
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... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.
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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
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My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
