Paul Kane Quotes

I think all writing is done through memory.

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

Writing is something I want to explore. If I were to do it, I would want it to be not a book made by a YouTuber; I would really want to respect that craft of literature and just be an author.

Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.

It really helped me as a writer to understand how other writers think.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

Writing tips are like mini skirts. Sometimes they fit perfectly, sometimes they make you cry, and sometimes you can reuse the material and sew yourself a pillow or something.

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

Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

I prefer writing originals.

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you're doing it, whether you're doing it well or badly. And merely because you've done it well once doesn't mean you can do it well again.

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

I've always liked new writing.

Call me the author.

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

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

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

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