Quotes About Writing

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.

I don't write for a living. I live to write.

To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

You could be writing the book that changes your life.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.

Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

Writing is making sense of life.