Daniel Alarcon Quotes

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

When I write, I imagine places more than people.

You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your nose.

I think that writers are best served by sticking to their writing. Not having loads of theories about the best way to position the writing. I think that if the writing is good and the point of view is strong, the writing is going to take care of itself.

All my writer friends outline their books, and I find that hard. It doesn't feel inspired to me. I get bored with that, and really, I just want it to be fun.

A sense of play is important when I'm writing, and so messing around with, say, a magic routine can feel like play, at least initially.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

I'm constantly creating and writing.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant

I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.

I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

I always write a story in one sitting.

It feels like when I write, it's intuitive. This is true of Frances, and it's true of this [The Funniest Movie Of The Summer].

A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.