Writing Quotes - Page 438

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.

I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

You write about what you know.

I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.

Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well

I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide.

The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind.

I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about?

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

Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.

I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.

I use a lot of humor in my writing. But it's completely black humor.