Quotes about Writing

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

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.

Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.

Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

You gave me Christopher Robin, and then You breathed new life in Pooh. Whatever of each has left my pen Goes homing back to you. My book is ready, and comes to greet The mother it longs to see -- It would be my present to you, my sweet, If it weren't your gift to me.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

When I started to write 'Hannah's Child,' I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain kind of vulnerability. I think that people respond to that.

Never index your own book.

For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.