Quotes About Writing

Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult.

I'm not one of these writers who says, 'Oh yes, the next book is due out in one year and three days.' I just say, 'You're gonna get it when it's done. It's gonna be good, but you're not going to get it until it is good.'

I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.

I'll keep writing 'Dune' books as long as my mother's spirit continues to support the project.

That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty.

Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.

When I'm dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may mean, at any time, that I won't be publishable anymore.

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.

If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.

I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen.

I write the best book that I can write each time.

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

When I read 'Another Country' when I was in my early 20s, you know, as soon as I put the book down, my first thought was, 'I will never be able to write a book like this.' And my second thought was, 'I really want to try writing a book like this for the 21st century.'

I loved writing when I was a kid and thought about being a writer then. But I didn't have the confidence or belief that I could earn a living that way, so I never took myself seriously.

We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn - from our royality.

In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.

I like to produce something every day. The easiest way to get ideas out is to put them on paper. I like to sit back at the end of every day and think, 'I created that today.'

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

I think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to articulate it, to express clearly and economically and with focus and with purpose.

For a while there, our writing got really edgy... I've always written about experiences, so when your life gets a bit crazy, you start to write songs that are a bit edgy.

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.

When I write a story or think of a scene, I always play some song in the background. Sometimes when I don't add a song at the writing stage, I do it while editing the film.