Quotes About Writing

Every writer should be able to write anything if you do the research and you're sensitive enough to ask the questions.

I get sent horror scripts every week and most of them are putrid. A lot of people think it's an easy medium but it's not. Not if you want to make ones that last.

I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.

The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.

Writing is better if it's kept simple. Every sentence doesn't need to have perfect noun/verb agreement. I've said 'ain't' on the air. Because I sometimes use 'ain't' when I'm talking.

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.

The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.

I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence.

I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.

Nothing feels better than constructing a beautiful sentence.

I'll live with whatever sentence I'll get in the end - I'll just finish my book.

My aspiration was to write a book that you could still read in 10 years. That's hard. Then you start doubting every sentence you write.

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at least not written by me.

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

Writing is looking for music between sentences.

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough.