Writing Quotes - Page 453

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

I am just really focused in on what I love doing, but I would be a moron to not take some of my natural talent - I'm not saying I'm that talented, but I have enough acting and writing talent to go.

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

Write from the soul, not from some notion what you think the marketplace wants. The market is fickle; the soul is eternal.

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.

The best time to tell your story is when you have to tell your story. When it's not really a choice. But then, when you get that first, messy, complicated version down, you have to read it over and be very tough on yourself and ask, 'Well what's the story here?' If you're lucky enough to have someone you trust looking over your shoulder, he or she can help you if [you] lack perspective on your own story.

But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.

I write to find out about how the world sings.

I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.