Ree Drummond Quotes

John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.

I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.

I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is to write the book that you would want to read, and hope other people agree.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

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.

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

Writing - not being a writer with interesting habits - gets priority.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I write what I'm interested in.

Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over a year. I'm lucky to be one of the former - but, even so, if I'm not in the mood to write, I won't. I'll go off, do something else and come back to it when I'm ready.

You can't sit down and decide what you want to write about.

I like to believe that I don't think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching, I wrote when I could. Weekends were good typewriter time. Now, it's whenever I feel there's something to be put on paper. I don't care what time it is, though I always write in the notebooks at night.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.