Jane Rule Quotes

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.

I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.

In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.

I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me, and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.

If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.