Quotes About Writing

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

I am so excited to announce that I have written a book. I have actually written it myself with no ghost writer, just me! I never thought it would be possible but I have done it.

I think with my book, I wanted to first of all just be completely involved in it. I wanted to write it; I didn't want a ghost writer. I wanted to be honest about everything.

I've wanted to write a ghost story for years, and my main aim was to write the most frightening ghost story that I could think of.

I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself.

Whenever I run out of people to write about, I cook up a few ghosts, or they appear before me.

I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.

Celeste Ng is such a gifted writer.

I always get nervous before a gig, so I look over my writing, trying not to fantasise about all the things that could go horribly wrong.

I always say being a writer is the best gig around. I love it.

I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in the cupboard.

I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I go there for my own pleasure, the Lord might just give me loads of stuff all at once.

I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.

I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.

I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved.

Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.

We are in a global economy whether we like it or not. And we believe - I believe - that America should be at the table writing the rules of the global economy instead of China.

Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.

Knut Hamsun's writing is magical. His sentences are glowing; he could write about anything and make it alive. Of contemporary writers, Thure Erik Lund is my definite favorite.

I try to cope by doing what I do, what I find purpose and joy in. For me, that has been writing and playing ball. It doesn't make the pain go away, but what else can I do?

I don't have a life, really. I take my kids to school, and I go home, and I write. Then I go pick my kids up, make them dinner, put them to bed, and write some more.