Quotes About Writing

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

I think it's time to admit that our writing is guided by the technology we use as much as it is by our own subjectivity.

Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll make the time.

I've never had much attraction to writing fanfiction. I don't spend much time thinking about properties I don't own, as it's 'wasted' brain-cycles.

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

If you want to change things in the USA it's best not to spend all your time writing but to take action against the ol' sea of troubles.

Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's time to leave a project.

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.

I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

I find that time constraints actually make me more productive, and "real world" experiences provide a lot of inspiration to write.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

I'm horrified most of the time. I wish it was more complicated, but at the same time, each time I try to complicate it I hate it because I hate the idea of writing to impress.

I spend most of my time writing.

Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.

The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.

I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.

The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.

The guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that I could spend as much time with that guy as possible.