About Writing Quotes

Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.

I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.

Write as if your parents are dead.

Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.

I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?

There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.

My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.

That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord.

... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details; any good lie does.

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing

I write because I want to have more than one life.

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.

I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting

Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

Write as if you are dying.

Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.

I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.