Quotes About Writing

I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

I love the camaraderie of a writers' room.

Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.

I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

If you decide you're going to do the piece, you're doing it because you love the writing.

I love a story that balances pace with detail.

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

I have a Sharpie. I love Sharpies. You know what they say on them? Not for letter writing. That sucks. Now I have to communicate with my dad using numbers.

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

I'd love to branch out but I have absolutely no interest in romance. I just don't. The thought of trying to write a rom-com ... it just completely skeeves me out. No!

I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

I love horror movies. I consider myself a horror author, sometimes.

I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?

That person, I can't remember who it was right now, who said the pen was mightier that the sword-I thnk they were wrong. I think the eraser is actually the most powerful tool. I wish there was an eraser that could erase the things a person did. And erase other people. Writing things down doesn't erase anything. What's done is done, and that really sucks.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

History of Drama did leave me with one valuable thought. One of the playwrights--was it Lope de Vega?--believed that ideas were somehow spewed into the atmosphere to be seized by anyone with a receptive mind, and that upon receiving an idea one should use it immediately because others were sure to pluck the same idea from the spheres. This one wisp of philosophy, no more than a sentence or two from a college course, has haunted me all my writing life.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelf. Write it

If you don't see a book you want on the bookshelf, write it.

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One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing.