Jerry Spinelli Quotes

Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?

Write what you really care about. Write what you want to say because that is the experience that always rates as genuine on the page.

I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.

I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important thing. I think if you write what you care about, you stand a better chance of having the reader care about your story.

Write what you care about.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.

I always write about what interests me.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

I enjoy, in the summer, getting back to writing in my own voice.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.

Covers are always so fun to do, but there's nothing like telling your own story.

I feel like a lyricist is somebody that writes their own lyrics. Now songwriters and lyricists are two totally different things. You can't really be a lyricist if you didn't write your lyrics. There's no passion, there's nothing in it coming from you. It's somebody else's feelings and you just taking it and running with it.

A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.

I just try to write literally what I love. That's usually the barometer that I use. As trite as it sounds, I'm like, 'what would I want to see? What would I be excited about?'

I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.

Write what you love and love what you write.

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.