Writing Method Quotes

Writing Method Quote of the day

We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show.

Bash it out now, tart it up later.

It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.

The space where I write is in my head, I suppose.

One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real.