Quotes About Writing

I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller.

Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'

The more life experience you have, the more comedy you can write.

I like to tell stories in my writing but I definitely use my own life experiences to tell that story.

I want to put out a few books throughout my lifetime.

I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It's most important to me that she likes what I write.

Since my childhood, I had a great liking for Karunanidhi and admired his writing skills.

I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.

No, I won't ever write another 'Lily Bard.' I said everything I had to say about Lily.

A lot has to do with the writing. If you're the writer people seem to remember you. But my part is singing the high parts. It's not the limelight but I'm happy with it, even though writing is where most of the money is.

Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.

Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer.

I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your business aspects so you can keep your time free for writing.

In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a straight page-turner, with no literary conceits.

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

I want to leave behind a literary legacy.

I've always wanted to write, but coming from a small-town background - I was born and brought up in Ludhiana - you think you're not the kind of literary person who will write books that will sell. There was always a kind of defensiveness in me.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.