Quotes About Writing

What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

Nothing can be done but by inches. I write out my life hour by hour, word by word . . . imagining the existence of something uncreated this poem our lives.

We write from the marrow of our bones.

Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life.

Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or somebody you know about - something that you feel deeply and passionately about. Never try and force it.

Ever since I was a kid, I have loved writing. It has always been one of my passions.

All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.

A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

My favorite pastime is to write.

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?

Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways of distracting myself from the glum inescapability of actual work.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest.

I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I write, but I don't want to go down the feminist path.

Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself. I don't know if I could do that. But I'd love to direct again.

I wrote three stories on spec because I didn't have the patience to convince people I could write.

Writing takes too much patience and it takes too much out of you for me to want to attempt it too often.

I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

You know something like 'Patriots Day' that I did a few years ago, which is a drama, is very different than comedy. That was super rewarding. I want to do more of that and also my own writing.