Quotes About Writing

I don't write about Google except to insult the company.

My writing did turn out to be quite intact, as it has all my experiences gathered at one place.

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.

I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

I tend not to approach things intellectually at first. Maybe after the fact i can look at it and see ultimately what it's doing. I start with the characters and their inner lives.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

When I wrote 'Savage Season,' it was three years later before I wrote the second Hap and Leonard novel. Whenever I wrote one, I never intended to write the next one.

I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up at 6 A.M. and on a train to Birmingham to record 'The Archers'. It was pretty intense.

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is done.

In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

I don't know how to troll people, but there are many out there talking with that intent. I just write something funny that would make people laugh.

I thought I could write. So it was my intention to start off as a writer. But I wasn't really great at delivering the word at the end of the day.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

It's fun to intentionally write bad dialogue. It's not so fun when you do it, but didn't mean to.

I want to write a book that makes people debate, and makes people think, interact with each other and exchange ideas... I write because I'm engaged in this big conversation.

Whenever I write, I write very dialogue-heavy things because I love to force my characters to interact with one another.

I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.