I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.
I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.
I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.
I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I could...
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
I write because I can't imagine not writing.
I write short stories. I write every day.
What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write.
I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.
I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't ha...
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.
I am a disciplined person. When I am writing, I write for 7-8 hours.
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 th...
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.
When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have t...
I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.
