Quotes About Writing

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.

I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.

Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

I love writing things down so pretty much every card I send to friends or family is an over enthusiastic essay. I've written some pretty good ones in my time.

Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a lot of the time, I have to write and as I write, I learn about the story.

I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional sort of thing which is perennially salable.

By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been designed, as that's always done during a project's pitching stage.

I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's not getting much better.

The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.