Quotes About Writing

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

You'll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

I have great respect for the semicolon it is a mighty handy little fellow.

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about them, thinking about them, and sharing them with you.

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful.

Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever.

My writing, it's my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write.

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: "It was the footnotes".

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.