Jess Walter Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Who isn't crazy sometimes? Who hasn't driven around a block hoping a certain person will come out; who hasn't haunted a certain coffee shop, or stared obsessively at an old picture; who hasn't toiled over every word in a letter, taken four hours to write a two-sentence email, watched the phone praying it will ring; who doesn't lay awake at night sick with the image of her sleeping with someone else?

  Jess Walter

  Block, Crazy, Coffee

• I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.

  Jess Walter

  Block, Coffee, Writing

• I love humor in writing, so I've written to the thing that's funny, there's the joke, but then I just kept going. I started thinking about all the bikes I've had stolen, and that got me thinking about crime, and that got me thinking about the city I'm in.

  Jess Walter

  Writing, Thinking, Cities

  Source: therumpus.net

• I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell you the story before they've written it, and buying an idea from someone who can explain it rather than write it is like choosing a mechanic based on his ability to draw a picture of your car's problem.

  Jess Walter

  Silly, Writing, Thinking

• I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab coffee with friends, or play basketball. Then, around noon, I begin apologizing via email for the manuscripts I can't get to.

  Jess Walter

  Basketball, Morning, Coffee

• The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think it's how you teach yourself to write.

  Jess Walter

  Writing, Thinking, Twenties

  Source: therumpus.net

• I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

  Jess Walter

  Writing, Writing Stories, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

• You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view.

  Jess Walter

  Writing, Character, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

• I'm certainly eclectic in my writing.

  Jess Walter

  Writing, Eclectic

  Source: therumpus.net

• I quickly decided my zombies weren't really zombies. It was instead something you called people who were on this club drug, who then exhibited aggressive behaviors. And then like everyone who writes about zombies, I found it was so much fun.

  Jess Walter

  Fun, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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