Quotes About Writing

The story of 'Punyakoti' is real-intense. It has a lot of layers and is not as simple as the stuff I wrote when I was an amateur.

If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

So many writers don't like to write... I like to write, and sometimes I'm afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don't want to leave it. And as a result, I'll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

There's no writers room, or any other writer involved. I write everything from beginning to end. Maybe it's just me not being able to let go of something, especially with 'Peaky.'

Let go of the idea that somehow you can outsmart a first draft. Because I have never met anybody who can.

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.

I don't just write letters. I write laws.

I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.

I just happen to be from the generation that, like a lot of my older friends, started out writing letters.

I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.

I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.

Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.

Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story.

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.