Quotes about Writing

I do research, I read books. I write down everything that I intend to say and this may take several hours. Then when I am out there preaching, I do not carry notes.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

When I first started out writing the 'Darkness' books, there was, at least in my mind, a certain sort of rulebook we had to follow.

I've always had a maturity within my writing.

I just write mechanical things.

As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.

I'd love to write more observational comedy but the stuff people seem to respond to is the most personal so it's snowballed from there.

I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

People would much rather argue their own visions and conceptions about a book than engage in a dialogue with the author, because the author could always trump you with, 'I wrote it.'

Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people's moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three months later.

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.