Writer's Preference Quotes

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.

I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are just like what's on the shelves.

I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to write about the outsider. It might just be because I've been one (or perceived myself to be one) for so much of my life. But the simple fact of being marginalized immediately brings conflict to a story before the narrative even begins, and that's gold for a writer because it means that your character already has depth before events begin to unfold.

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

The head writer loves that my character is a boor.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

I'd much prefer to write more quickly.

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.