Quotes About Writing

Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?

I write in seconds. I don't stop. I don't think. I simply write and when it comes, it flows and it makes sense because it's genuine. I don't understand thought-out poetry. It doesn't seem real to me.

It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.

I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story.

Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.

It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

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

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.

All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

Man, fountains pen are a pain to use, drawing backgrounds is a also a pain... Drawing manga really is a pain. In short living is a pain... I want to become a cheesburger

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

Every Observer writer wants to be a novelist.

For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.