#writ

It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#comfortable #fun #having #job #like

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#i #interested #not interested #picking #somebody

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#contrary #film #film industry #forces #his

I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#again #enough #figured #good #her

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#been #eighth #eighth grade #fiction #grade

If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#character #description #down #even #going

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#days #i #i can #instance #intentionally

I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed. ↗

— Daniela Pestova

#back #bumps #case #coming #crashed

If I were a taxi cab driver, as lots of writers supposedly are, and my boss were to tell me that I couldn’t read on the job, I’d obediently go around running every STOP sign. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #job #logic #obediently

I am the worlds laziest writer. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#i #i am #laziest #worlds #writer