Quotes About Writing

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

I want to make sure that I make music that lasts. I've been experimenting. I've been writing.

I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.

When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.

I talk about myself. That's what I am. I'm a blogger. I have always decided that I was going to be an expert on one thing, and I am an expert on this person, and so I write about it.

The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book.

You must write to the people's expertise.

When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy friends over the years.

I feel like if I couldn't write, I would explode.

When you're writing a team book where every character already has his or her own series, you don't have dominion over them as individuals - but what you can exploit is their relationships with one another.

The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.

I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.

I do like to explore evil characters in my books.

Writing gives me the license to go, explore, and learn about the world.

The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me.

'Gone-Away World' was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I'd put myself into writing film scripts. 'Tigerman' is shorter, tighter, more crafted.

Writing 'when you find me,' it really exposed me to a way of putting together a story I hadn't thought of.

I think anyone can write about anything that they have knowledge of and exposure to.

I felt like when you're an actor, you don't get to fully creatively express yourself - most of the time, it's not your own writing or direction.

Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.

I'm not the best at expressing my feelings other than in songs or on paper.

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.