Chance The Rapper Quotes

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

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

For a writer it's a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

I never thought about what I would write. I just come from such a big family of storytellers.

I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

I'm a bore. I save all my energy for my characters.

As long as there's a strong theme that I can identify with, that's what makes me interested in writing.

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

When I don't have any story in my mind, I am busy doing foundation work.

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

I get passionate about certain subjects, and then I'll write a whole play around it.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

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

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.