Quotes About Writing

I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad to still be a writer without remembering why, on some visceral, emotional level.

By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just be my hobby but now it's like my diary, it's where I can go in my own little bubble.

I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.

So long as I could write things down I could give up talking for a VERY long time.

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time spent in the library adds to one's wealth as a writer or artist.

Money to a writer is time to write.

I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night.

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it."

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.