Quotes About Writing

I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.

If writing really is empathy, then understanding your place in society might actually help you achieve it.

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

I feel like an emperor only when I'm writing.

When I got into the second half of 'Dragon Ball,' I had already become more interested in thinking up the story then in drawing the pictures. Then I started to not place much emphasis on the pictures.

I can't emphasize enough how much of a writer I am.

It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.

I wrote all the time, and I had teachers who encouraged it.

I actually think I learned to write concisely working for an encyclopedia company in Chicago.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.

I may not have written the stories that I've written if I hadn't ended up in Niverville. I don't know; I don't know. How can you know?

You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or more. So you want to have a subject that will keep you engaged.

I get to hang with people that I make music with, people that I laugh with, people that I write with, and it's enjoyable to me.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

I like the writing life, but it's not something that always makes enough money.

Making a book is such a big enterprise.

I spend a lot of time on Facebook and Twitter writing all day long because I feel it's my job to entertain people.

I will say it is funny that writing a song about not wanting to entertain people is what got me a career in entertainment.