Brooke Baldwin Quotes

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice.

As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.

I think as an author every character ends up low-key being some kind of self-insert.

When you write a show, every character is you to some extent.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most useful equipment I acquired in that time is a lack of preciousness about the act of writing. A reporter must write. There must be a story. The mot juste unarriving? Tell that to your desk.

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.

You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.

When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.

So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends to write what she knows. In 'Revenge Wears Prada,' a great deal of my own life finds its way into the book.

I started writing more with my voice in mind.

My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.