Christopher Bollen Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.

  Christopher Bollen

  Writing, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me.

  Christopher Bollen

  Writing, Helping, Cigarette

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.

  Christopher Bollen

  Morning, Book, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Someone asked me when it was that I felt confident enough in my writing that I could rely on it as a career. The truth is, I never have. I'm always on the hunt for second, third, or fourth careers. Private detective and cinematographer were previous career choices, but now that I'm older I think I'd be a good portrait painter, rug merchant, or florist.

  Christopher Bollen

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.salon.com

• It's really hard to write about art in general. But it's exceptionally hard to fictionalize art and make work that isn't a parody, or is something that could withstand critique and exist in the art world as a valuable object, or a true piece.

  Christopher Bollen

  Art, Writing, World

  Source: therumpus.net

• It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.

  Christopher Bollen

  Writing, Giving, Laughing

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

• Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.

  Christopher Bollen

  Writing, Vacation, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• One day I want to write a full-on horror book.

  Christopher Bollen

  Book, Writing, One Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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