Quotes about Writing

There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.

Revelation when applied to religion, means something communicated immediately from God to man. It is revelation to the first person only, and hearsay to every other, and, consequently, they are not obliged to believe it. It is a contradiction in terms and ideas to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication.

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

Just like all my novels, 'Illusion' is a good way to observe where Frank Peretti was in his life when he wrote it.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.

Teaching writing is a hustle.

Writing is very subconscious and the last thing I want to do is think about it.