Edward P. Jones Quotes

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

Writing is essentially an internal process.

I write from the voice in my head.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way, and it leads me to write it exactly how I'm seeing it.

I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.

I just start writing, and in the process, one hopefully comes up with ideas and solutions and explores all the little nooks and crannies.

I think I always have many ideas for books in my head. It's like a forest full of mushrooms. Some are big, some are small.

I've learnt over the years to always be thinking of titles and ideas that I try to put across with just a couple of words. It's the difficult part when you're writing things that are basically abstract.

I just kind of talk about what's happening in my life and it's kind of like a therapy session. Usually something good comes out of that. Or sometimes other writers will come to me with ideas and then I'll put my own spin on it. It's usually really collaborative and open and it's very therapeutic for me as well.

A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.

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

Rain on my head, call that brainstorming.

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.

Writing is thinking in slow motion.