Quotes About Writing

You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.

I guess if you want me to stop writing horrible, mean takedowns of everyone, give me a really, really cushy columnist gig.

The writing of a series finale is horrible.

Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural.

I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.

I spent years only ever reading horror and then trying to write horror - and deep down, a horror writer is still what I'd love to be. But it wasn't until I started writing crime that things began to work for me.

If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it.

If I'm going to direct a horror movie, I'd have to be the one writing it, because I have to make it personal.

While I was writing 'The Last Werewolf,' I didn't watch any horror movies.

What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

I was part of a writers' collective with 21 writers and filmmakers called the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. We had our own office space in this old converted dog and cat hospital, and we had a basketball hoop outside. I'd bring my dog to work every day and write.

My first five novels were written longhand. So were hosts of short stories.

I'm lucky in the sense that I can write wherever I am - on the bus, in the hotel room, backstage, sitting at home.

When I'm drawing, I only do that at home, really, at my drawing table. But writing I could do in other places. So I've written in airports, in hotels, different places.

The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can.

I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.

Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.

Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.

Creativity was definitely a big part of our household, and I remember always writing stories and being encouraged to be creative.

I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don't think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

I can't tell you how many times I've been writing an article only to get distracted by an email notification, either on my laptop or smartphone.