Richard Matheson Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of your dereliction....Pound for pound, fantasy makes a tougher opponent for the creative person.

  Richard Matheson

  Writing, Creative, Opponents

• He pretended it was the only thing that kept him from it. But, far back in his mind, he wondered if he could write anything. Often the question threw itself at him when he was least expecting it. You have four hours every morning, the statement would rise like a menacing wraith. You have time to write many thousands of words. Why don't you? And the answer was always lost in a tangle of becauses and wells and endless reasons that he clung to like a drowning man at straws.

  Richard Matheson

  Morning, Writing, Men

• God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”)

  Richard Matheson

  Writing, Worry, Overcoming

• I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

  Richard Matheson

  Writing, Thinking, Brain

• When I'm writing, especially when I'm writing in first person, I don't think about the characterization, or how they are going to express themselves, I just express my own approach to these things. I think most writers can never divorce themselves from their private lives and personas; they are the ones that are writing. And the more they remove themselves from their own persona, the more, perhaps, mechanical the work becomes.

  Richard Matheson

  Divorce, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.rodserling.com

• Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time , What Dreams May Come is the story of a love which transcends death . ... I feel that they represent the best writing I have done in the novel form.

  Richard Matheson

  Dream, Writing, Stories

  "Somewhere in Time". Book by Richard Matheson, p. 318 - 319, 1998.

• I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didnt write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

  Richard Matheson

  Writing, Bridges, Fiction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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