Quotes on “writing”

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

With writing, we have second chances.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.