Quotes About Writing

Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.

I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.

Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies, which is a funny business.

I've always been very honest about what's good and bad in my writing. That honesty might have made me sound arrogant sometimes, when I was talking about work I thought was good.

The only responsible way to write about anything is with honesty.

I think the best writing is full of honesty and conviction. A lot of people are afraid to reveal much of themselves.

It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women.

Sometimes a writer just needs a hook.

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and writing again. He had so many paperbacks, I didn't have to buy a book for four and a half years.

Diphthongs are indicated by combinations of hooks and circles.

Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that my future would lie with writing.

Great writing fills me with hopeful enthusiasm and never envy.

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

I've been rewritten on past projects and thought, 'That's not what she was - she was this really powerful woman, and there's nothing wrong with that.' I'm going to keep writing them, and hopefully people will start making them.

I always go for just really, hopefully, great writing and great acting, being in the company of great actors.

I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it.

Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction.

What excites me, what attracts me, what gets me up in the morning is telling the next story and getting it out in front of readers and hoping they'll love it too.

I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.

You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.

With any piece of writing, you're hoping that it will change something, and it seldom does.

Whether it's theatre or TV or film, you're hoping you're going to bump into a writer that's got a bit of honour in him, that wants to tell a good story and is able to tell it well.