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Some of my favorite quotes from In Style’s December interview with 17-year-old Taylor Lautner of Twilight fame:
What do you or don’t you like to see a girl wear?
I think a girl is most attractive when wearing sweats and just being herself. I don’t like when they try to get too dressed up. That’s why I’m not a big fan of high heels. I really like jeans with round-toe ballet flats. Also, ankle boots with a skirt or short dress.
Beyond food, what do you think makes a man?
You have to be able to be a sports guy and have friends to watch the Super Bowl with, but then also take your girl out for a walk and buy her clothes and jewelry.
So a guy should be tough and tender. Sounds like you’ve described Jacob’s rival, Edward Cullen.
Oh, but Edward can’t play football. Or transform into a wolf. Then again, I can’t sparkle in the sunlight.
Ha!
“Read everything. Don’t be ashamed to imitate better writers. That’s how everybody learns, and eventually your own voice will win out. And don’t get caught up in the business side of things. If possible, try not to think about that stuff at all. There are so many ‘how to get published’ and ‘how to find an agent’ and ‘how to write a query letter’ books and seminars and so on in the world these days, and all of them put the cart before the horse. If you write a good enough novel or short story or whatever, somebody will publish it. I promise. Publishers want good books. Good books are far more rare than bad ones. Focus on your writing and the rest will take care of itself.”
“How I Write”, The Writer March 2008
Jossip’s interview with Sean Lindsay, author of “101 Reasons to Stop Writing”
“The biggest problem facing the publishing industry today is that the people who should be buying the books are instead trying to write them.”
“If you’re an introvert who likes to be alone and loves language and is consumed with questions about how people operate, and if you love to observe interactions between people and what they don’t say as much as what they do say, what could be better than to take all of those components and write?”
“I know a lot of writers say that the characters take on a life of their own, or that they are just running along beside their characters, taking notes or dictation. But I don’t actually believe in that as a construction of the writing process, although I have no doubt that it feels that way a lot of the time. Sometimes, if I’m writing very, very fast and not spending lots of time staring off into space wondering, ‘Now what, now what?,’ there is a sense of channeling, I suppose. But I believe firmly that even if it is unconscious, we are entirely the agents of what we write.”
The Writer February 2008
“First, the thing to remember is that writing is writing. It’s a process. It doesn’t get easier once you’re published. It’s always the same. A writer is a writer, whether they just started or they’ve been doing it for years. If you’re writing now, you’re already in the club.
Secondly, writing takes time. Spend a little time every day writing in some capacity. Don’t wait until you have five free hours on the weekend. The longer you put off writing, the more daunting it seems. Write every day. It’s easier to keep a patient on life support than it is to resurrect the dead.”
The Writer May 2007
“As a swimmer, one does laps; a pianist, scales. As a writer, one uses words as a kind of sandpaper, not to smooth out the surface, but to rub off the skin of the world and find out what it’s really made of. This is a daily process.”
The Writer March 2oo7
“Reading is the passion that brought me to writing. Reading to me is crucial. I tell my students all the time, ‘If you’re not reading, who’s going to read you?’”
The Writer December 2006
