Quotes About Writing

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

As they say in the movies, I got here the hard way, with no education and no dough, and whatever I am I am because I wrote it.

I have a room of my own. Rain drops onto it. Rain drops down like worms From the trees onto my frontal bone. Haunted, always haunted by rain, the room affirms The words that I will make alone. — Mother And Jack and The Rain.

I am not seeing anyone or writing anyone—I'm on my 8th draft of this play and how many more—God knows.

A woman who writes feels too much, Those trances and portents!

Turn wounds into words

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk with self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.

Writers' closest companions are inside their heads.

Sometimes I wonder why I write down all these memories. Would I want to give them to strangers to read?

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.

We scribbled down writers' reflections on life, discovered the joys of describing ourselves to ourselves with shimmering turns of phrase, 'existence is to drink oneself without thirst.' We were overcome by nausea and a feeling of the absurd.

Si je ne les écris pas, les choses ne sont pas allées jusqu'à leur terme, elles ont été seulement vécues.

Déjà le souvenir de ce que j'ai écrit s'efface. Je ne sais pas ce qu'est ce texte. Même ce que je poursuivais en écrivant le livre s'est dissous. J'ai retrouvé dans mes papiers une sorte de note d'intention : Explorer le gouffre entre l'effarante réalité de ce qui arrive, au moment où ça arrive et l'étrange irréalité que revêt, des années après, ce qui est arrivé.

J'ai toujours voulu écrire comme si je devais être absente à la parution du texte. Écrire comme si je devais mourir, qu'il n'y ait plus de juges.

Nunca he escrito para que sea bonito o para hacer una frase bella. Lo que yo escojo es la frase justa