#writing

Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#begin #book #during #emerge #even

I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me. ↗

— James Herriot

#because #holidays #i #i love #interesting

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#begin #characters #direction #feel #heading

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark. ↗

— Vanilla Ice

#album #am #anger #anxiety #came

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen. ↗

— Vanilla Ice

#am #beat #been #direction #drum

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station. ↗

— John Irving

#finish #i #i am #know #never

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#biographies #book #books #doors #editor

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#conscious #conscious thought #esquire #i #scholar

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme. ↗

— Diane Johnson

#already #apparent #becomes #deepening #end

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#i #start #writing