John Trudell Quotes

I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write, because that tends to be a little forced.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

I can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing comes.

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

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

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

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.

If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which, for me, is once every two and a half to three months, which is when I'll get really and truly inspired about something.

I'm sure every author has their own process.

For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.

I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am.

Well, I always write when I am inspired, and I am not a constant song-writer.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.