Write Quotes
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I wanted to write in you.
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Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.
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I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there.
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It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
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I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.
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I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines over and over until I had them right, making some of the rhythm of the horse help.
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The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.
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I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?
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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
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Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.
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I don't believe as much as you write about it, you truly know how down it was and how poor and how bad it was.
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If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that.
