Quotes About Writing

When I was a boy, I began writing a biography of Shakespeare, and since then I've written a number of biographies of actors and famous people.

It's very hard for me to write back to some of the fan mail, so one of the things I wanted to do was reach out through a book.

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.

'NewsRadio' was fantastic.

Part of the joy of writing for kids is that you have to have a real adventure story. You can get really involved in the fantastic in a way that perhaps you can't so much in adult fiction.

Writers can express ideas and emotions that are important to them but have no other means of expression. Some of these ideas may be fantastic, and some of the emotions may be given clearer voice in fantastic fiction.

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

I think that my passion for writing fantasy began at about the same time as my passion for reading fantasy.

My feeling is that writing Fantasy should be harder - not easier - than writing any other kind of fiction.

My daughter was five when I was writing 'Minari,' very much close to the age of David. And I was about to turn 40, which was the age my dad was when he decided he was going to start this farm in Arkansas.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

I always wanted to write a raccoon story. I don't know why. It's not like I want to own a raccoon or anything like that. I'm just fascinated by them.

I'd always been fascinated by boxing and became very engaged with it through my husband, actually. But I started to write about it because so many decent, righteous people wanted it banned.

I'm always fascinated by how different writers' rooms work.

It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.

I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write.

'Hemlock' is so intelligently written and brilliantly put together. Every detail in the show is there for a reason, and it fascinates me.

Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.

I've been writing big stories of history, but there are a lot of fascinating little stories.

When you're writing for a movie, you're trying to capture the emotion of a scene. I find it a fascinating process.

The fascination for me writing about crime in Berlin was the idea that there was this much bigger crime taking place in the background, a fantastically epochal moment in history which is just going on. That just sort of makes the whole thing have a greater resonance.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.

My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.