Krist Novoselic Quotes

After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write.

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

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

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

I like to take all my feelings and thoughts and put them down in different ways on paper.

If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.

Of course, I write. I have stories to tell. But I don't want to do superficial stuff any more.

I do actually enjoy the process of putting my thoughts down on paper and having people actually read them.

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

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

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.

I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential thoughts is to start putting them down.

I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.

Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

My drawings are another kind of music for me...they relax me and I think they all connect somehow.

A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.