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Writing Quotes by Charles de Lint
- Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every day whether you're…
- I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing…
- I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really…
- Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In…
- The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
- I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
- I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what…
- I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that…
- I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I…
- I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks.…
- I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to write…
- I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write…
- My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as…
- To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are…
- There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very…
- The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a…
- The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether…
- Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov