Aldous Huxley Quotes

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

People often ask writers where they get their inspiration, and for me, the short answer is that I haven't a clue; I'm just grateful that I get them.

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative.

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

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

You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.

When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'

When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.

For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they're writing from a very deep place. The subsequent search that ensues to continually attend to that voice that you hear is what is going to give the story drive.

For me, inspiration isn't a sort of spark which lights the fire of the story. It's more like a thread, one of many, which you can tease out of a story once it's written, if you feel so inclined.

I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: 'Is it going to happen this time?' You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.

Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a certain amount of sweat. There aren't any shortcuts. You can't write an algorithm for it. You can't predict it. You can't code it.

I could not write without my dog, Rhoda, a Lab-chow mix.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.