Quotes About Writing

I think on our first two movies we weren't really writing for anybody else above us and that's not to say that movies aren't ours in the way we want them to be in terms of the scripts.

Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.

Sportswriting is fascinating - descriptions of the opponents and the details of an event in which someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. Life is much longer and more complicated, and the outcomes are less clear-cut.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

I wrote my first book in fifth grade. It was about a dog that goes to outer space and is an ambassador for Earth.

Fantasy is expensive. It's an expensive endeavor. I have to admit, I didn't write with adaptation in mind. So the books simply become more outlandish as they go on, and they're full of a lot of locations and elaborate set pieces.

I suppose in the long run, it's the good work that outlasts the shoddy work, but there's enough room for all kinds of writing.

I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.

The hardest part of writing is the first draft, and the closer you get to your deadline, the messier your workspace becomes - but that's the same with any creative outlet.

I think and write whenever I want an outlet.

I write books and songs and all sorts of bits and pieces on the side. It's important to have that creative outlet - I'm really passionate about it.

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.

I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.

I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.

I am a big outliner. For my adult book, 'The Visibles,' I did not outline, and it took me two years to write because I just didn't outline, and I had no path.

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.

I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I'll go into my office or whatever. But that goes from format to format.

I write through improvisation. I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.

I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write.