Quotes About Writing

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff I do, and people read it over your shoulder, it makes you a little self-conscious.

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

I wanted to write at school - to write funny stories which the teacher might ask me to read out to the class. It's all basically about showing off.

I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

I write instead of going to the shrink!

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

I met Eva Ibbotson before I became a writer myself, and was in awe of her then.

The biggest difference in writing a sequel is that now there are expectations. But also - and this is the awesome part - now there are fans, too!

If I'm really excited about a scene, I used to wait to write it, and now I'll just write it. When you do that, all sorts of awesome things can happen from just giving in and writing that scene you're excited about.

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

When I think of the things that I want to write, I can never say them out loud because I know how crazy they sound. I know what things sound like when you haven't actually worked on the script, so I don't go around saying some of these ideas because they just sound awful.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again.

I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling.

Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just don't have that luxury. I have a babysitter for three hours a day, which is how long I have to write.

Unfortunately, the back log for writing for 'Walking Dead' is pretty backed up! Usually, we wouldn't see the scripts until the week before - or sometimes even the week of.

Sometimes, if I don't write for a day or two, I get backed up - it's like constipation.

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

I like to write from scratch most of the time, but I like to have a backup plan just in case.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

You have to search for the best writer - I'm not saying I'm the one, but it's a bad idea to just find the person who is a copycat of Stieg Larsson.