Kurt Busiek Quotes

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.

I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

I have a background writing screenplays and teleplays. I've tried to write prose and fiction but never really completed anything I thought worthy of publication or worthy of anyone else to even look at.

I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into a book and realizing I'd made a mistake on word three that would mean throwing everything out.

If I had to write a novel, I'd start crying after three lines.

Writing a script consumes so much of time.

I would love to write a script, for sure. I write poetry and songs. But writing a script needs a lot of time and discipline.

There's nothing more painful than writing.

I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.

Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.

I love writing shorter fiction.

If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.

Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.