Quotes About Writing

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books, and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.'

I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't been writing for nothing.

I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse you, let me try to please you with this thing I've made. And then pay attention to me.

As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'

Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people - a nicer book with nicer characters - but I just can't.

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.

I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story.

I think I've had a certain amount of success at making phrases. I'm a good writer. But obviously, I'm incredibly flattered and pleased when people remember things that I say.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better.

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.

There's lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it's your own creation, it's more pleasurable because you have total control.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.