Nell Scovell Quotes

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.

Writing is more important than being a writer.

I don't have a trunk of manuscripts.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

If you wish to be a writer, 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.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.

People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away.

I write constantly about everything.

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

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

I'm always a bit disappointed when I've finished working on a book.

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.