Tim Wise Quotes

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. You must not wait, loiter, dilly-dally. You must force your way painfully through.

I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way.

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge - how do you shape this story into a book that people are going to love.

People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.

I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.

I don't find it easy to think of good stuff to write about.

As an observer, I'm analysing my reactions, I guess, and my thinking; but about the process of writing... I am not very talented at talking about what I do as a writer.

Sometimes you don't really know what you're going to write about. I mean, there's times where you get into a writing room and it's a complete flop. And then there's times where you get to a writing room and you're like, 'Oh, I'm just on a roll.'

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

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

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.