Macaulay Culkin Quotes

Someday I would like to be the kind of writer who barrels through a draft, but I can't even seem to barrel through an interview like this, so I imagine I have a long way to go.

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.

I thought I could write. So it was my intention to start off as a writer. But I wasn't really great at delivering the word at the end of the day.

After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

I don't think of myself as a writer.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

It was my great problem to solve: how to write a book, you know. And after you write one, you have to write another to prove to yourself you can do it again.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don't think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

I have always found writing very difficult.

When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted to write good stuff - poems, prose, stories, essays, everything.

Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, 'Am I going to be able to do this again?'

I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write a good line of dialogue that I read out to my wife or something like that. But there's also days where it's just bloody agony and I go, 'ugh, this is such crap! Why did I think I had any talent?

Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.