Robert Kirkman Quotes

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

I'm here to get the story on to the page. It would be good to catch your attention, and I have to make you want to read on, and I suppose I prefer you don't actually think about the 'how' at all - the writing technique, the 'style', or even who it is that's putting this together.

My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write.

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.

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'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.

When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

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.

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.

If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.

I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.