Gin Wigmore Quotes

I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.

Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

Sometimes I hear a voice - sometimes it's the voice of someone I know. And sometimes that leads to a character, which leads to a story.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

I find that it's really important for me to imagine characters and situations. That allows me a lot of freedom.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life.

Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start talking.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer.

I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.

'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' was surprisingly easy and fun to write because I was feeling such strong emotions.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it's very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen.

My novels are all ideas.

It's been a while since I've written a novel aimed at the adult market, but I never sit down and say to myself, 'Okay, now I'm going to write something for us old folks.' I get gripped by an idea, and I go where the idea takes me.