Quotes About Writing

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.

You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm just not a very cynical person. I believe in the humanity of people, whether it is just the guys in 'The Full Monty' or Aron Ralston.

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.

The pen is my true salvation. God is not.

Write only if you wish to read it again and again while falling in love with it...

A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about you write a whole book.

I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers - not all of them, of course.

I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.

I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been incredible just to realize your books are being read. It's a pretty amazing feeling.

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals.

I love the solitary, romantic idea of writing.

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question.

Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling.