Stefflon Don Quotes

I love to write. I used to be a math teacher. And I like the idea that other people could write about the same subjects, but no one would write it just the way I do. It's very individual: a child could write the same story as somebody else, but it wouldn't come out the same.

I write my books never thinking of an actor.

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

I prefer writing originals.

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.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

If you can write and create original characters, do your own show, develop your own material, it gives you more power than just waiting around to be hired.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult.

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'

Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't really matter how you got them.

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.