Sue Gardner Quotes

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.

I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

I am not a consecutive writer.

The way I write is totally instinctive. I just write what I feel or what I find funny - and hope everyone else agrees.

It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

It's true that your environment influences how you write.

When you go back and look at what people say about my essays, they're always going, 'What is this?' Because they're not exactly like other people's essays... The approach is not at all the recognized approach of a non-fiction writer. It's not linear. It isn't pyramidally based on fact.

I'm sure every author has their own process.

I'm open to writing just about anything. I love writing the books that I write. They do tend to be on dark subjects, but I don't think of myself necessarily as a dark-humored person. I like having a lot of fun.

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

My father was prolific when it came to writing: day-timers, journals. He wrote on pieces of loose-leaf paper that he held on to, and he wrote in spiral notebooks.

I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then I go and type it up afterwards. I've always done that. Those things become habitual.

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent.

I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me. But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.

Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.

I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently political." I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.

Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does.