Quotes About Writing

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

I never go online on my iPhone. Sometimes I'm tempted but I remind myself and the kids - it's a tool. Use it as a tool. You're not the tool. My iPhone, 85% of the time I'm writing down ideas.

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

I am a blogger - that is an amazing thing for me, because it captures a moment in time every day.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.

I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for "True Blood" and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It takes a lifetime. Enjoy it!

You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you have a pact with your readers that you'll be really straight with them at all times.

They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.