#writing

Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#back #bad #bad stuff #better #came

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#away #become #being #come #decide

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#books #children #could #easier #i

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#austen #because #books #boring #boring people

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#crossing #good #good writing #most #out

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #comfortable #fiction #four #genre

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#adult #bloody #books #children #complex

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly. ↗

— Paul Haggis

#interest #lose #quickly #really #uneasy

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#dialogue #i #i love #i think #lot

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#influential #music #theater #very #writing