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Writing Quotes

My entire career writing novels was wrapped up around Harry Bosch. This character was too important to me to just hand off.

Michael Connelly

Character Me Writing Career Hand Up

We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink).

Virginia Postrel

Writing Building Stone Paper Ink

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

Shirley Jackson

Work Myself Writing Facts Dislike

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Margaret Atwood

Life Writing Reality Voting View

I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.

Poetry Me Writing Urgency Always

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

Happy Me Writing Long Wonder Things

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

Haruki Murakami

Me Writing Write Something Just

Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you're the dude from the streets. Or you're the woman who was in prison.

Jennifer Konner

Woman Writing Prison You Know Niche

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

Lisa Marie Presley

Writing Singing Think Goal Out Sing

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

Writing Finishing Fiction

Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Myself Writing Friends Forget Try

Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Time People Me Writing You Kind

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

Writing World Think Ticket Songs

I don't believe in condescending to children. I don't change any writing technique.

Stephen Schwartz

Change Children Writing Believe Any

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

Raymond Chandler

Moment Man Thoughts Writing Down He

We must be capable of writing our own history.

History Writing Capable Own Must

For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.

Writing Long Fiction Been Books

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

Age Children Writing Innocence I Can

I like that it's challenging - that when I'm writing, I feel as if I'm pouring everything I have into the story until there's nothing left and I have to begin thinking about a new world and set of circumstances to research and explore.

Research Writing World Thinking Feel

Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness.

Positive Anger Writing Negative Out

The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity.

Beginning Law Writing Think End

I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction.

Love Time Best Teen Writing Chance

Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism.

Jonathan Galassi

Work Faith Work Hard Writing Listen

The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.

Freedom Writing You Artist More

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