Quotes About Writing

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

I keep a big, fat dictionary with me while writing.

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script can get muddied and altered in any way possible. You can use reason, logic, and passion to argue persuasively for a case in your favor.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.

Writing isn't everyone's favorite thing to do or what their thing is.

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.

My favourite writer is John Maxwell Coetzee.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

I have no literary fears.

One of my fears is not writing. I don't know how to do anything else.

I am a person beset with fears, and one of my fears is that this thing that I will be writing for five years won't work. And the likelihood, of course, is that it won't - and that's fine.

I think, a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable or having a really broken family.

For my first feature film, I just wanted to write something that people can relate to, something that was real. I really wanted it to hit home with people.

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

Going into the second arc, I'm making a conscious effort to do something I say I never do, which is to change my style because of feedback. I'm trying to make 'Pretty Deadly' more accessible by being more clear in the writing.

As enjoyable as it is when you're just writing and getting feedback from family members, it's 10 times more enjoyable, or 100 times more enjoyable, when you actually start getting paid for it, and people start reading your books, and once in a while you get a good review.

When I sat down to write 'Rules of Civility,' I didn't write it for anybody but myself. I wasn't trying to make my mark or make money. I wasn't anxious about feeding my kids or whether my father would be proud of me.

I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

I didn't take writing seriously at first - I didn't think I could do it. When I did, I fell in love with it. But writing is very lonely.