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Writing Quotes by Erin Morgenstern
- Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.
- I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would…
- I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I…
- I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
- 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…
- Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones,…
- People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a…
- The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does…
- This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon…
- Writing in a near frenzy is wonderful and freeing, but for me, it did not result in a nice, shiny novel. Instead, what I have…
- Writing in a near-frenzy is wonderful and freeing but, for me, it does not result in a nice shiny novel. Instead what I have is…
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