Min Jin Lee Quotes

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

I'm definitely a writer. I don't even know how to freestyle.

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

I've always liked new writing.

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.