Writing Quotes

I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion – and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

Fear makes us fiction writers.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.

Many people can write, but only the rare can understand the pain behind your unwritten emotions.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

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

I went to an all-girls’ Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I’ve always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well.

If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones. After all, there are better ways to starve to death.