Quotes Part 8

I thought we’d go with some writerly quotations as I have given mostly Criminal Minds gathered ones of late.

“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don’t dare reveal.” – Elia Kazan

“Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.” (Not sure who said this one as I don’t have it written down.)

“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair – the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.”- Stephen King

“Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.” – Mark Twain

“What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.” – Kathy Lette

“All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don’t get plumber’s block, and doctors don’t get doctor’s block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?” – Philip Pullman

“Writing is not a job description. A great deal of it is luck. Don’t do it if you are not a gambler because a lot of people devote many years of their life to it. I think people become writers because they are compulsive wordsmiths.” – Margaret Atwood

“I hate the term ‘mystery’. That’s not what I write. I think the Scarpetta novels are much more character-driven than an average puzzle solver. Writing should be like a pane of glass – there’s another world on the other side and your vision carries you there, but you’re not aware of having passed through a barrier to get there.” – Patricia Cornwall

“Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.” – Monica Ali

“You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn’t seem to understand the concept of commercial success, then that’s your bad luck.” – Michael Frayn