Quotes About Writing

I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.

I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.

It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.

It took us nine months to write 'The East'; we didn't start writing it on the computer until seven and a half months into it.

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.

When I wrote my first novel - I was nineteen - I did it very quickly. If you write fast, you feel like you're entering something not yet familiar - a world rather than thoughts about the world.

Ninety percent of my material is made on stage, but I feel like you're missing something by abandoning sitting down to write entirely.

Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.

Whether I am writing about a man or woman makes no difference in terms of difficulty.

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it.

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

We had absolutely no experience in writing kids books and its a very competitive market. But we buy and read a lot of children's books and we felt that our books had that extra something we were always looking for.

Right when I moved to L.A., I started writing. I wrote some screenplay. I'm sure it's terrible. But I wrote a screenplay by myself. When I first moved to L.A., I had no friends. I didn't know anybody. I just sat in a little studio apartment, and I wrote a screenplay.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, 'Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.' You have no idea of the competition.

I love to read and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have. I love to sing.

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I was doing, and should stop immediately. It only took the one to tell me something different to light a fire under me.

The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!

I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.

Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character.

I've never been willing to commit to more than one at a time, because I just don't know - I don't plan the books out ahead of time. So I have no idea how much ground we'll cover.

I'm completely dyslexic - it's the writing part. People read what I've written, and they have no idea what I'm trying to say.