Cassandra Clare Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Clary screamed out loud as he fell like a stone- And landed lightly on his feet just in front of her. Clary stared with her mouth open as he rose up out of a shallow crouch and grinned at her. "If I made a joke about just dropping in," he said, "would you write me off as a cliché?

  Cassandra Clare

  Writing, Feet, Rose

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.772, Simon and Schuster

• But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hate, Writing, Want

• I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dream, Emo, Writing

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.621, Simon and Schuster

• You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Writing, Want

  Interview with Cheryl Brody, www.seventeen.com. March 05, 2008.

• If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?

  Cassandra Clare

  Writing, Cliche, Jace

• We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt-I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted-and then I realized that truly I just wanted you

  Cassandra Clare

  Love, Dream, Lonely

• Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one. That's your book, isn't it?' Just because I'm Jewish doesn't mean I've memorized the Old Testament.' It's the Writing on the Wall. "God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end; thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." It's a portent of doom--it means the end of an empire.

  Cassandra Clare

  Art, Wall, Book

• He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night" and "starlight" rhymed, but he had a feeling the poem wouldn't turn out that well.

  Cassandra Clare

  Writing, Eye, Night

• What’s that poem again?” Will, who had been twirling his empty teacup around his fingers, stood up straight and declaimed: “Each spake words of high disdain, And insult to his heart’s best brother—” “Oh, by the Angel, Will, do be quiet,” said Charlotte, standing up. “I must go and write a letter to Aloysius Starkweather that drips remorse and pleading. I don’t need you distracting me.” And, gathering up her skirts, she hurried from the room. “No appreciation for the arts,” Will murmured, setting his teacup down.

  Cassandra Clare

  Appreciation, Brother, Art

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.519, Simon and Schuster

• Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs.

  Cassandra Clare

  Writing, Feet, Royal

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

• I believe that authors don't have a responsibility to include "messages" in their work, but they do have a responsibility to write a world that seems true and real, never more than when expecting readers to believe in magic and angels and fairies.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Believe, Responsibility

  Exclusive Books Interview, blog.exclus1ves.co.za.

• I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.

  Cassandra Clare

  Reading, Book, Writing

  Interview with Charles Packer, www.sci-fi-online.com.

• For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So it's really amazing when your book gets out there and more people are reading and responding to it. It really makes the world of the books feel real.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Book, Reading

  Exclusive Books Interview, blog.exclus1ves.co.za.

• I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read. I've written many short stories with realistic settings, and I certainly wouldn't rule out realistic novels in the future!

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Writing, Magic

  TheFandom.net Interview, www.thefandom.net.

• I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.

  Cassandra Clare

  Writing, Fantasy, Favourite

  Phantastik-Couch.de Interview, www.phantastik-couch.de. March 2012.

• Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

  Cassandra Clare

  Writing, Character, People

  TheFandom.net Interview, www.thefandom.net.

• And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

  Cassandra Clare

  Writing, Serious, Feels

  Interview with Cheryl Brody, www.seventeen.com. March 05, 2008.

• Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a successful style, in order to be published. I've known people who felt they had to model their book on existing blockbusters, or write in a genre that's supposed to be "hot right now" in order to get agents and publishers interested. But if you're writing in a genre you don't like, or modeling yourself on a book you don't respect, it'll show through. You're your first, most important reader, so write the book that reader really wants to read.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Writing, Successful

  Source: cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com

• I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.

  Cassandra Clare

  Writing, Character, Thinking

• A lot of people feel like urban fantasy is a shortcut that gets you around world-building, because it's set "in the real world." But it doesn't really work that way, as I found out. You have to come up with just as consistent an internal cosmology and magic system as you would if you were writing high fantasy.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Writing, People

  "Author Interview: Cassandra Clare on City of Bones (Book One, The Mortal Instruments)". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. March 8, 2008.

• Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Writing, Character

  Interview with Cheryl Brody, www.seventeen.com. March 5, 2008.

• I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.

  Cassandra Clare

  Home, Writing, Light

  "Cassandra Clare Interview". WriteWords Interview, www.writewords.org.uk. July 31, 2007.

• I like to listen to music that fits with what I'm writing. For each book, I've assembled a playlist, so readers can get a sense of what I was listening to while I was writing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Writing, Listening

  "The Last Book of The Mortal Instruments Series Has Arrived, and It's Full of Juicy Lust and Betrayal". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. May 29, 2014.

• The great thing about writing for a younger audience is that they will give it to you straight with their responses. They'll tell you exactly what they liked and didn't like, and when they're enthusiastic, they're unashamedly enthusiastic. They'll talk to you about your characters as if they were real people, which is wonderful.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: www.writewords.org.uk

• I'm not ritualistic about writing. I try to write as often as possible, which means that I have to be able to write in all kinds of situations, whether it's at home on my couch, out at a cafe, or traveling.

  Cassandra Clare

  Home, Writing, Mean

  "The Last Book of The Mortal Instruments Series Has Arrived, and It's Full of Juicy Lust and Betrayal". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. May 29, 2014.

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