Quotes About Writing

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

I don't want to recover from writing this book [The Onion]. I feel very poised. I feel like I'm with my mother for the first time ever. I feel like I've confronted her, and the confrontation goes on.

The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the bills.

If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

I wish I had more time to write.

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per se.

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didnt have time.

I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.

I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.

Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now.

For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.