About Writing Quotes

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.

I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism, because it teaches you, it informs you, and it changes your writing.

Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didnt have time.

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind."

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ... I can't do it.

The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness.

I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You might read one over the course of a summer, but that isn't what I want to write.

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.

There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

I know that sounds cliché, but mostly from my own experiences and things I see around me. We're all human beings, and a lot of the things I write about are pretty universal things.

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

I was so flat I used to put Xs on my chest and write, 'You are here.' I wore angora sweaters just so the guys would have something to pet.

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?

I am always trying to write.

I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.

Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.

The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write.

I think my writing has become "cleaner."

Write a living will. And become an organ donor!

The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean, do MALE authors get asked that??

You want to write something as good as what you've read.

For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much less write about. And that's what I need; that works for me as a writer.

Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all waiting to hear it.

To be creative, you have to be wrong most of the time.

Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous.

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.

Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page in revenge. Real writers sit down and write. Wannabe writers sit around and talk.

I've seen Joe take on many battles, cancer being one of them, and the determination that he has, and he won't stop, he's not going to make one announcement and write one editorial and go away.

Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in the way, but only serve the agenda of the heart.

I got a pit bull from a shelter, so my whole life is centered on this dog, and I've been writing a lot of dog jokes. I should probably give up now, because I'm writing jokes about my dog.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain but I'm wasting my breath.

It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.

What's so ironic is that CNN's doing reports on fake news, and they have someone who writes one false news story after the next.

I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible.