Robin Sloan Quotes

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

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

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

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

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'

For me, inspiration isn't a sort of spark which lights the fire of the story. It's more like a thread, one of many, which you can tease out of a story once it's written, if you feel so inclined.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.

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

My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'

I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.

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

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

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

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.