Nick Earls Quotes

Don't write poems to make girls like you, because it will not make them like you but it will give them something to quote back at you later in life.

I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.

I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing new to discover. So, I'm unlikely to write a memoir.

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.