Quotes About Writing

I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it sound too good. Just use your own voice. Use your own style of putting it down.

The writing is really important in books that affect me. I read for the writing. The story is usually of less interest to me. It's the words that break your heart.

The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.

When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that impracticality.

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

In the afternoon, it's impossible to put down any new words. I don't even try.

You don't make a decision about being a writer. There was a point, aged 21, when it became clear that this is who I am. The choice is how good you are going to be at it and how hard you are going to work.

I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

In 2005, I did a lot on 'Habibi' and a lot of business stuff. I got an agent that year.

Writing is agony. I hate it.

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

You write what makes you laugh, and you hope that the audience agree, and so far they do.

I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.

I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.

I think I've been very lucky all my life because the writing and the faith seem to go together.

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

I've always loved to write, and I wrote fiction all my life. That's what I thought I was going to do in my life - until I started writing songs.

What a Wonderful World' is a love song to nobody and everybody. I'm thinking about songs like that in my writing with 'Take Me to the Alley.'

Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.

I used to write at home a lot. I used to write a bit for Girls Aloud.

I feel like it's a really natural part of writing: You lose perspective, and you have to let it go sometimes in order to come back to it and see that it's pretty alright.

Fan fictions are an alternate universe.