Brent Runyon Quotes

Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

I always tell people, I never get writer's block because it's coming straight from my brain, like, real-life experiences. I'm like the news. I'm just reporting it for myself.

To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.

You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.

My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.

Covers are always so fun to do, but there's nothing like telling your own story.

Everybody - every single person - has a story. Find yours and tell it in your voice.

I never learned to be a writer. I never took screenwriting courses. I never read anyone's scripts. As a writer, my only guiding principle has been to write about things that scare me, write about things that make me feel vulnerable, write about things that will expose my deepest fears, so that's how I write.

I think if I was interested in writing on my own, I would be a novelist - then you could write about yourself, and that would be it. You wouldn't need anyone else.

You must give your own story to the world.

Whenever I started writing music, it just naturally led itself there. As I started to tell my story, it's where my home was. It's just a very natural choice.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.

I prefer writing originals.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.