Quotes About Writing

My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem.

I've been in the industry for 15 years, and I knew all the pieces that needed to be included to make a series. It wasn't just about writing characters, it wasn't just about writing a funny joke.

I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel 'Black Water,' I provide a voice for someone who has died and can't speak for herself.

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from £34,000 a year to £16,000.

If four or five days go by, and I haven't written anything, I feel incomplete.

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inconsistent, and that's something I think makes him a writer above most writers because inconsistency is what we, as people, are full of. We maybe don't see it in ourselves too often, but we are inconsistent.

Because I'm a little ADD, I would like to incorporate even more facets to my career eventually, such as writing and directing films.

George Martin is an incredible writer.

For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

When I'm working on a short story, I could duck into a bathroom at a crowded party and write a scene, which is to say I can work in a very incremental way.

To expose a first draft to anyone's ears other than your own is indecent.

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.

I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

I discovered that, given the indescribable nature of what I write, the only way to sell it is to give people free samples.

I've got an original graphic novel called 'The Indian and the Bandit' that I'm writing with a childhood friend.

Claire shook her head as she read the e-mails. She had learned to read and write before the advent of the online age and still felt out of place in the e e cummings world of the Internet, where nothing was capitalized, periods were known as dots, and the normal rules of grammar and punctuation did not apply.

After the first draft, I sat back and thought to myself, "where did that come from?" That thought was quickly followed by "what is wrong with you?

Al secondo appuntamento Fulvia gli disse che scriveva benissimo. «Sono... discreto». «Meravigliosamente, ti dico. Sai che farò la prima volta che andrò a Torino? Comprerò un cofanetto per conservarci le tue lettere. Le conserverò tutte e mai nessuno le vedrà. Forse le mie nipoti, quando avranno questa mia età». E lui non poté dir niente, oppresso dall'ombra della terribile possibilità che le nipoti di Fulvia non fossero anche le sue.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.