Quotes About Writing

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees a word, is it as a writer that you die?'

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

That might be completely self-indulgent, to write your first major-label debut as a dedication to your family. But, you know, that's where my heart was.

I'm not one of those deeper, ethereal writers. I'm just trying to get it done.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them. I think that is what real writers do. They don't tell people how to live or what to think. They write in order to try to answer their own deepest questions.

I first wrote for adults, but when I started writing for young people, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life. I was able to express my own deepest feelings far more than I ever could when writing for adults.

Writing about food is my default.

In Shadow and Bone,' Alina's race is never specified. But that entire book is basically built on a white default. My life has never been entirely white or entirely straight, so I had to really step back and question why I'd chosen to write my first novel that way.

A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

I had an advantage over a lot of people who had gone to school and earned degrees in writing and had learned the rules for writing, so to speak. My style was just to tell a story but to tell it well, and that has worked out for me so far.

When I was working on 'Freddie,' I had been trying to write it on a computer for many, many years, but that delete button just won't let anything go forward.

I read my father's books growing up. I thought then and I still think now that his writing is wonderful. It delights and infuriates me in equal measure that he's still that good.

The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere.

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what their take on my delivery is or what they think that I can do with something. So I kind of leave that to them.

Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

I never actually plan sequels. They demand to be done.

Shakespeare was writing about his time, and it was a time when women were beginning to demand a voice, demand a say in their lives for one reason or another, mainly to do with the economics of the time.