Quotes About Writing

I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.

I really enjoyed the process of 'Women in Clothes,' but there's no way I would have done that again. It felt more like being an editor than a writer, and I longed to write again.

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.

I'm not the kind of writer that can write eight hours a day... I'm the kind of writer that the more time I have, the less efficient I am.

I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

There always seems to be an element of faith in my writing.

There's an element of ego to writing the Riddler. You research a lot of things that you end up jettisoning as a writer, and Riddler was a lot of fun to get to have that sort of annoying know-it-all personality lording over the city. He's a lot of fun to write about.

There's always an element of truth to what I write because that's why I write.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

I see people doing things in their Blackberrys, and I need paper. Lines. Alphabets. I need to see it. It's so elementary, man.

I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don't know that about me.

I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for adults. I don't write anything - put anything in my books - that I'd be embarrassed to put in an adult book.

A novel, especially a first novel, is... really an emotional autobiography. All these emotions I'm embarrassed at having had, I've written about.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

I feel like I can't write something that has a real emotion in it if I can't connect to that emotion.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

If you can't empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them.