Eberhard Weber Quotes

I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.'

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

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

I don't believe in writer's block. I'll get stuck, but being stuck, I'll still write a verse. If you know where you're going, you can always start from there and work your way back.

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

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

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

I write in a rush of memory.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

I prefer writing originals.

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.

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.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'