Quotes by category:Writing

I truly believe that writing is a continuum--so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better.

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I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question. Sometimes the journey is finding out where you stand in relationship to your own humanity and to the humanity of others.

journey writing book

When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork.

giving-up eye writing

Just the fact that there's motion and sound, took me a long time on Walking Dead to get used to the fact that in television, characters don't have to say things. In comics, people have to say I feel this way, or I want to do this, and you can do so much with gesture and movement and facial expressions that you can do sometimes facial expression stuff in comics, but you can do so more if somebody can move around without actually speaking. That leads to a different style of writing between the two mediums.

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Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine.... by Chris Bohjalian

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

Chris Bohjalian

writing lying interesting

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

Chris Bohjalian

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If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someo... by Chris Brogan

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

stories writing character

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

Chris Campanioni

being-myself lonely writing

I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. "You are in this box. That's all you are, that's everything you are." It's a very de-humanizing experience.

writing running people

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

writing song kids

Since the president's [Barack Obama] lost all of that [majority in Senate], he now has decided he's just going to write laws on his own. He's going to give us edicts, as if he's a king. And that is a petulant child. He's refusing to listen to the will of the American people, which is they reject his policies.

kings writing children

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

stories writing talking

If I can't write it would be as if I died. by Chris Cleave

If I can't write it would be as if I died.

died would-be writing

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

research writing character

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.

anger hate writing

I write in the novel's afterword that our recent wars "finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy".

writing war enemy

I think I just want to leave my mark in some way. I hope I leave the world a better place than it was when I came, and I think the best way I can do that is through acting and writing, and hopefully it will make a difference someday.

differences writing thinking

But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn't it? Because technically everyone could do it if they wanted to." "Just because anyone can do something doesn't mean everyone should," Mrs. Peters said. "Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

connections writing mean

I hope to write someday and that’s even more terrifying than performing. You don’t just entertain the audience, you give them little bits of your soul.

soul writing giving

I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of questions. It all kind of formed a story in my head, and I really wanted to be a published author when I was 10, but I had a hard time writing a novel when I was 10. So I decided to wait until I was little bit older and then get it done.

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