Quotes About Writing

I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books.

Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.

One has to be ambitious to start writing.

I write the books to amuse myself.

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

No Barstool writer has ever said or written one thing out of hate or anger. It's always to get a joke.

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.'

Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.

I still think of things for 'Jill' all the time. It's annoying, because I want to be able to find another character who I could write for indefinitely.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.

I'm inspired by questions I have that I try to figure out the answers to through my writing.

Generally, I'm not anti the novel.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

Unless you sell millions, I think it's very hard as a writer not to feel anxious about what you put out. I always feel I could do better.

I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.

I couldn't give 'Vikings' away - I mean, I love these people. And I'm not sure anyone else writing it would necessarily have the same feeling towards the characters that I do.

Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

I wish podcasting was my only job - I have more fun doing that than I have doing absolutely anything else. But my job is that I'm a writer.

I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write.