156 quotes found
“A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.”
“There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.”
“Reading is sexy. Women who read are suspect. Women who write dangerous.”
“Why the tag of ‘aspiring’ writer be the wishful cliché? It’s like a bumper sticker. Say it! I am a Writer. Period. We may all have a target and gradation toward successes, a personal illusion/perce...”
“There’s really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly.”
“I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting!”
“But for many writers, and to borrow a popular cliché, it’s like getting blood from a stone. You have the want and the desire, but with experience and time, your self-doubt becomes louder and your i...”
“Don't fool yourself. Talking about writing is not the same as actually doing it.”
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himsel...”
“When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.”
“I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.”
“Because here’s the thing: No matter how much one tells stories of magical beasts or impossible worlds, in the end, it is always the world of here and now one is writing about. The better one unders...”
“A writer’s brain is like a magician’s hat. If you’re going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first”
“Writers have come to master nearly every trade. They are inventors and entrepreneurs of character, plot, and dialogue. They are the eager scientists that can’t wait to try out their new experiment....”
“The conditions of writing change absolutely between the first novel and the second: the first is an adventure, the second is a duty. The first is like a sprint which leaves you exhausted and triump...”
“A writer who hasn't written anything worth-while is a most doubtful person.”
“Why do I do it to myself? Why don't I get an ordinary job?”
“Writing is hard…It gets harder when it becomes your career, your job, because it’s no longer a hobby, it’s no longer a manuscript hidden in your desk drawer. It becomes a platform from which the wo...”
“But if you needed to HAVE AN IDEA, boredom could be to a roadblocked novel what chemotherapy was to a cancer patient.”
“I don’t put that pressure on myself (to write every day), but I do tend to write every day. It’s not pressure—it’s pressure release.”
