Quotes About Writing

If your mind jumps to crazy story ideas from little things you see all around you, you might be a writer.

What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

When Wilde composed his works he surrounded himself with books. A friend remembered him writing a poem 'with a botanical work in front of him from which he . . . [selected] the names of flowers most pleasing to the ear to plant in his garden of verse'.5 Aubrey Beardsley's caricature of Wilde, 'Oscar Wilde at Work', shows the author at his desk surrounded by mountains of books.

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

You don't know what love is until someone lives with you while you write a book.

Dedication   For my cousin, Kiysha Now you can stop asking me to put your name in a book!

The world was too loud for little-boy Shane. What he didn't know was that he was training himself to be a deeply empathetic writer—understanding nuanced emotion, spying humanity in unexpected places, seeing past the obvious. He was taking notes for his future self, who would write it all down.

I'm alone. When I'm comatose from writing and mothering, when I'm hurting too badly to cook, talk, or smile, I curl up with 'alone' like a security blanket. Alone doesn't care that I don't shave my legs in the winter. Alone never gets disappointed by me." Eva sighed. "It's the best relationship I've ever been in.

Isn't it obvious?" "Apparently not." "I'm not just writing about you," said Shane. "I'm writing to you.

Shane and Eva were her writer children. And as their mama, she had a right to get to the bottom of their situationship.

After writing (and sobbing and writing and sobbing) for hours, she was more than a bit delirious. Dizzy from pain. Loopy from meds. Fiercely proud of what she'd written. Desperate for waffles. Itchy from Spanx. And then, of course, there was her heart.

Why do you keep writing about me?" "Isn't it obvious?" "Apparently not." "I'm not just writing about you," said Shane. "I'm writing to you.

The world was too loud for little-boy Shane. What he didn't know was that he was training himself to be a deeply empathetic writer—understanding nuanced emotion, spying humanity in unexpected places, seeing past the obvious.

This isn't about him. It's about me. Occupying all the space I need to. Standing tall in exactly who the hell I am. A damned good mom and writer with a terrible disability who overcomes it every day and whose best work is ahead of her and whose ass is perched for the gawds in her dress.

The trouble with taking writing seriously, is that the more seriously you take it the harder it is to write. Possibly I take writing more seriously than any other human being that has ever lived.

Book-writing is always much easier in other people's lives.

If you have a desire to write, that means there's stuff in you that wants out. And if you don't write things down, you just forget them.

You should do it, Trixie. It's good for your soul. If you have a desire to write, that means there's stuff in you that wants out. And if you don't write things down, you just forget them," he said. "Think of all the stuff you've forgotten over the course of your lifetime." "How can I think of it if I've forgotten it?" "My point exactly.

I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.