Quotes About Writing

I will write my way into another life.

If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to.

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about.

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

As I've evolved in life my writing process has taken a turn. I'm inspired by everyday life. I could be in the middle of something and hear a commercial. I enjoy songs writing themselves.

What makes you think that you could ever write anything worth reading?" Voices like that sap your courage. They drain away your spirit. They make you want to run and hide, or lock a mask over your thoughts and feelings . . . and never, never, never write again. Don't listen to them.

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

I promise myself, once back in Paris, to write every day at least a page about anything, if only to keep my spirit on alert.

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

I hate the guts of English grammar. … The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity…. You can say anything that comes into your head; never forget that.

Be obscure clearly.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.