Quotes About Writing

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of Family Ties between Monday and Friday.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and it's easy to dredge up those feelings and get them on the page.

Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf.

It seems to me that since I've had children I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while but when I did write I had more of a self to speak from.

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

You Don't Have To Be The Best Writer In The World To Become A Successful Author. However, You Do Need To Sell Lots of Books.

Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write

The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.

Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens