Quotes About Writing

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

I don't believe in writing for goals, or else I'd write essays.

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.

I essentially write for myself.

It's - you know, acting's all about relatability and finding empathy for a character, which is essentially, kind of, you're finding empathy with a part of yourself, which is a part of a character that was written by someone else, which was essentially kind of a part of them as well because it was a voice in their head they wrote down.

In the digital space, writers and directors get time to build and establish a character.

I've managed to keep a lot of respect in radio because I write my own stuff. I've had a lot of success as a singer/songwriter. I think if you establish yourself that way, it is harder to throw you out with the bathwater.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak.

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

I get up in the morning, get to the office, and write until about six o'clock in the evening.

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

I write every night.

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.

Why a raven?" "To honor my father." "The writing under it, is that Cyrillic?" "Yes." "What does it say?" "Dar Vorona. Gift of the Raven. I am my father's gift." "The raven is holding a bloody sword." "I never said it was a nice gift.

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

Erase everything you have written, Mandelstam says, but keep the notes in the margin.

No escribo, luego no soy.

Writers sometimes cast themselves into the most profound depths of despair in order to master it and move on. A person's true means of expression is his life. Living the shame of life and maintaining silence, that was the greatest accomplishment of all.

I believe in writing — nothing else; just writing. Man may live like a worm, but he writes like a god. There was a time when that secret was known, but now it has been forgotten; the world is composed of disintegrating fragments, an incoherent dark chaos, sustained by writing alone.

No descuido la escritura, sino a mí misma. Los otros saben dios lo sabe qué hacer con las palabras. Yo no soy mi asistente. ¿Debo aprisionar un pensamiento llevarlo a la iluminada celda de una frase?

Vivere meravigliandosi. [...] Scrivere meravigliandosi.

I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.

And I don't believe in this materialism, in this consumer society, in this capitalism, in this outrageous horror that happens / takes place here…. I really do believe in something, and I call it "a day will come." And one day it will come. Well, probably it won't come, since they've always destroyed it for us…. It won't come, and I believe in it anyway. Because if I can't believe in it anymore then I can't write anymore either.