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Quotes About Writing

I'm one of those crazy people who have to write every day. Otherwise, I feel really sort of despondent, and it's because I don't feel very happy about not learning.
~ Hilton Als
I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work, and it creates this strange connection.
~ John Darnielle
I'm addicted to creating and writing.
~ Bret Michaels
I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
~ Dana Spiotta
Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.
~ Harlan Coben
I think making electronic music isn't much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It's a creative process, and it's an art form.
~ Max Joseph
I played around with GarageBand before, but I'd never actually made a proper song. So it was getting into the studio with him where I made my first proper song. I've always loved creative writing, so I had done that as well.
~ Benee
My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.
~ Conrad Hall
I've always been into creative writing.
~ Ivan Moody
I'm a fan of creative writing and telling stories.
~ John Petrucci
I did playwriting, creative writing, short story, novelization.
~ Brook Lopez
I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.
~ Gia Coppola
Favorite subject? I would have to say creative writing.
~ Bindi Irwin
I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'
~ Neel Mukherjee
I took an MA course in creative writing a couple of years back, and I was definitely in the bottom of the class.
~ Allan Guthrie
I never took creative writing.
~ Jesse Andrews
I would be sad if it ended now. It's been the best job I've had by a long shot, especially creatively because the writing is so good. Every week I get the script and I laugh out loud and get excited for the different stuff we get to do.
~ Sarah Chalke
I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
~ Rachel Kushner
I don't think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
~ Mitski
I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.
~ Ann Voskamp
I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.
~ T. C. Boyle
For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.
~ John Updike
I have a credit card and a phone. I answer emails; I answer questions on chat in the middle of the day. Then, late at night, I write against other people who do just that.
~ Joshua Cohen
You start to fall in love with characters as you work with them, and anytime that you care about your characters and you realize that you're gonna have to kill them, that fear creeps in. It's sad. It's scary, and it's also sad. Because you like these people.
~ Drew Goddard