Rainbow Rowell Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Running, Writing, Legs

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.298, Pan Macmillan

• But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Writing, Hands, Hot

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.283, St. Martin's Griffin

• I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Writing, Trying, Way

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.556, St. Martin's Griffin

• It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages and stay lost. To not hear any voices in her head but Simon's and Baz's. Not even her own. This was why Cath wrote fic. For these hours when their world supplanted the real world.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Real, Writing, Voice

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.381, St. Martin's Griffin

• She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Reading, Writing, Years

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

• Everybody drinks," she said calmly. The Only Rational One. "Your sister doesn't." When rolled her eyes. "Forgive me, but I'm not going to spend my college years sitting soberly in my dorm room, writing about gay magicians." "Objection," Cath said, reaching for a burrito.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Eye, Writing, Gay

• Ah." He set down his backpack and pulled out their notebook. "You're working on your final project?" "Indirectly," Cath said. "What does that mean?" "Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don't actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn't the object?" "No." He sat down. "Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that will be left in my mind.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Notebook, Mean, Writing

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.142, Pan Macmillan

• I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Writing, Anxiety, Stories

• Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that will be left in my mind.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Writing, Mind, Finals

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.142, Pan Macmillan

• With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Writing, Attachment, Goal

• If I had an author superpower, I would like to have the ability to stop time for everyone else. I feel like I have to disappear into myself to write books. I go away, into my head, for hours and weeks at a time, and I hate that I miss everything. It's pretty selfish to want to pause other people, isn't it?

  Rainbow Rowell

  Hate, Selfish, Book

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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