Ayelet Waldman Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Writing, People, Tragedy

  "‘Impossible Pursuits’ on film: A Q&A with Ayelet Waldman". Interview with Katie Hafner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

• The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Writing, Differences, Discipline

• I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.'

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Writing, Giving

  "Living Out Loud — Online". The Salon column, www.salon.com. March 14, 2005.

• As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Meaningful, Memories, Writing

• When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Baby, Children, Writing

• I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on it for seven years. I was putting into words the stuff I was teaching, and I was writing it up and thought, "Dude, you're writing a book."

  Ayelet Waldman

  War, Teaching, Book

  "The Case for Taking a Very Little Bit of LSD Nearly Every Day". Interview with Jenny Luna, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2017.

• You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Art, Jobs, Book

  "Ayelet Waldman on Acting Your Age". Interview with Tim J Luddy, www.motherjones.com. November, 2009.

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