Amy Waldman Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.

  Amy Waldman

  Powerful, Coffee, Writing

• I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.

  Amy Waldman

  Writing, Character, Years

• Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.

  Amy Waldman

  Reading, Writing, Character

• I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking I really want to write a novel.

  Amy Waldman

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "Journalist Amy Waldman". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. November 15, 2011.

• And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.

  Amy Waldman

  Country, Writing, Class

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