Andrew Scott Quotes

A sequence works in a way a collection never can.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness.

I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.

I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fiction, it's work. I have contracts to fulfil, and I have deadlines to meet.

I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.

I'm not big on reading directions. I can't do that. I'm just not from that world.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

At all times it is better to have a method.

I think libertarians need somebody who can articulate getting from A to Z. But you know, if G is achievable, how about it? Let's get there!

I look at things logically. The humor I do is to go from A to B to C to D, and F is the funny.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.

At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't. I figure that if I'm on a roll, it's partially because I know I'm about to stop.

Written reports stifle creativity.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.