About Writing Quotes

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.

I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.

You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.

I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest it.

I think that I speak a lot like I write.

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.

If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.

I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.

I really enjoyed reading the writings of Fredrick Buechner, I havent read anything by him in probably a decade but about 20 years ago I read four or five books of his and it helped me.

I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing.

I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.

How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.

My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.

I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching.

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself.

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there.

I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

You never get over the fear of writing.

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.

Writing is a workout, just like going for a run!

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

Cal: “Could you write a little bigger? I’m not sure China saw that.” Every Boy's Got One

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.

I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as soon as I'm done with this book, I'll move on to something else.

If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.

When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her.

In The Interestings I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.

I could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages.

Coming up with the idea is the worst part of writing for me.

With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface it seems so different for me.

I love what I call "re-imagining," where I throw everything up in the air and let it fall in a different way. It's not the most efficient way to write a book, but it's how I find the story.

I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar!

I’m not sure I’ll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should’ve said.

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop socially.

Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.