Quotes About Writing

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.

Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense.

I like to believe we're always looking to evolve as writers.

I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

When I first started, everything happened at once. I became religious, my musical career took off, I got married, I had kids, and all that happened within the course of a year. I had an excitement about this newly found faith, and so I was writing about that in a very evident kind of way.

I don't think, in my entire 18 years as a student, I ever used an exclamation point in an academic paper.

I've never had an exclusive relationship to a room where I write. I used to want one.

Internet is exemplary for me. I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity,' so to speak. The fleetingness of the Internet has therefore become very attractive to me.

I think the longform email is exhilarating and exhausting at the same time.

I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

When you are writing for the Christian culture, there is a whole gamut of expectations.

'Say Her Name' was a book I never wanted to write and never expected to write. I wasn't trying to do anything except write a book for Aura - a book that I thought I had to write.

I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

I write largely plot-driven stories.

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

I wanted to be a writer, and my mother was like, 'No, why don't you become a lawyer?' That sort of thing.