Marti Noxon Quotes

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

Reading taught me how to write.

The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

If you can talk, you can write.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.

I love writing different things.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.

Writing is a communication.

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

word thrower … phrase maker

When I decided I wanted to become an author, I never thought something I wrote would be used as a way to start conversations that are otherwise difficult to begin.

I think writing is a glorious and noble thing.