Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes

I always write tons of different styles.

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

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.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

I can't write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next. I pretty much have a basic style I employ.

If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.

Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.

Things happen in your life, and then you can write something else instead of the same three topics - like, how many times can we write about the clubs?

I really like to entertain myself in various ways when I'm writing.

What provides you with subject matter is your own language - and that's all.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I've learned never to try and force words to come.

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'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.

I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.