Joshua Ferris Quotes

I don't care about writing really.

Writing has to support itself.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

I really write for people.

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.

I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write.

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

I am always trying to write.

I write what's given me to write.

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

All writers have their own pet commandments.

We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.

When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?'