Chelsea Cain Quotes

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

I prefer writing originals.

You become a great writer by writing.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your nose.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I never seem to know how to do it. Every book is different and takes a different structure, style, process, etc. And relearning how to write is where the insanity comes from.

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

I've always liked new writing.

Stephen King's 'On Writing' is probably the most useful writing book I've ever read.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

Call me the author.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

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