Quotes About Writing

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.

Stephen King says that if you forget an idea, then it can't have been any good. He means he, not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulate Stephen King at home.

Been sitting at home all weekend writing for MTV Movie Awards - unfortunately MTV won't let me do my strip routine ala Magic Mike.

I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence.

You have all the scenes. Just go home and word it in.

many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill.

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.

Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

I've killed hundreds of teenagers. Hundreds. And I didn't know why. Why did I enjoy doing it so much? Why? And then I realized - I had a teenager at home!

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.

When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

If I am just home and writing, I become very strange.

I'm so happy to be around people. I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can.

My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.

I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.

L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.