Quotes About Writing

I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.

When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.

Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day and do it.

One thing I really want to explore is writing.

Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.