Quotes About Writing

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

I'm always surprised when writers say they don't believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on two hundred pages using symbols. We're all worshiping something.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.

It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can't have that kind of thing, cut it out!"

Anybody who writes knows the horrible, wonderful, beautiful foulness that comes every week. A lot of moaning, screaming agony - "Oh my god, the deadline's coming."

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.

I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. God, forget scissors - that's beyond the pale.

I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I can really do this". That was a review of "Margaret."

I think that if you're writing about the human condition, my God, you've got to start at base: point zero, point one, is the body.

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing.

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.