Quotes About Writing

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

Authors with a mortgage never get writer's block. –

every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

At De Pauw I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it I did the thing in life I wanted to do—Writing.

If you criticize what you're doing too early you'll never write the first line." [ Paris Review , interview with Jodi Daynard, The Art of Fiction No. 113, Winter II 1989]

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.

I'm two eyes looking out of a suit of armor. I write because I can't talk.

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool--and I'm not any of those--to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

Uko?ila mi se ruka kojom držim pero, svije?a tiho kašljuca i prska sitnim varnicama brane?i se od smrti, a ja gledam u duge redove slova, u nišane misli, i ne znam jesam li ih ubio ili oživio.

Led je pucao i kršio se u meni, ostaju?i zgomilan. Sam sebi sam najve?a prepreka, izgleda: htio sam da pišem o drugima, a mislio sam o sebi neriješenom.

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.

When I'm writing I can write anywhere; when I'm not writing I can't write anywhere.

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

Maybe that was what it was like to be a writer: Even with the eyes closed, you could see.

It was sort of like the way writers had long been pillaging all the good phrases from Shakespeare plays for the titles of their novels, so the only phrases still available meant nothing. Soon, Emmett thought, people would be writing novels called Enter, Guard .

oh boo hoo , everyone's life was hard, and if you'd survived the hardship, why write about it? Survival itself was enough.

First novels were always at least somewhat autobiographical,

to find out what another human being feels, a person who isn't you; to get a look under the hood, so to speak. A deep look inside. That's what writing is supposed to do.

Even when I can't relate on a personal level, she makes me know what she feels, and that's really something. To find out what another human being feels, a person who isn't you; to get a look under the hood, so to speak. A deep look inside. That's what writing is supposed to do.

But you can't say that what you learn in English class doesn't matter. That great writing doesn't make a difference. I'm

Books light the fire - whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.