writing Quotes

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.

I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.'

I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine system. I do miss the 3 A.M. writing jags.

I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

I am the freest author in the world.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.