Write Quotes
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No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.
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I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
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It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
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I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.
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My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
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I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.
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Being a bad writer a thousand times first.
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Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.
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I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.
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Most people don't know me, that is why they write such things in which most is not true. I cry very very often because it hurts and I worry about the children, all my children all over the world, I live for them.
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I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.
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I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I try to write something, I'd probably end up doing the opposite.
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Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.
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I did a show called 'What A Country,' with Yakov Smirnoff and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act.
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I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.
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I start my process hand written, and then I dump it in. It's like you're getting a second draft 'cause when I put it in the computer, I fix it and change stuff. That's my process. I picked that up from speaking to Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill. I was messing around with the idea of starting to write more, writing a book and doing things like this, and I reached out for advice. They were like, "Oh, we hand write, and then we dump it all in." I was like, "Great! There's no more blank pages."
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What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write.
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I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.
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Don’t write to impress other people — impress yourself first!
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It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive, hypercritical atmosphere. There are always a few students who want me to be tough or harsh, but it's really not my style.
