Quotes About Writing

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God

Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

I am not a trained writer and I don't think anyone would accuse me of being a funny person. But I feel God has truly blessed me.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.

For I begin with writing the first sentence, — and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.

Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.

People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.

Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.

It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

God makes trees, he doesn't write books.

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

All of my writing is God-given.