Quotes About Writing

I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about.

When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on a pedestal, blindfolded, holding the scales of justice in one hand! No, I see sentences.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

As a writer, I always peel back the layers, go to the most sensitive places uncomfortably close to the heart.

In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.

Yeah, I used to write short stories at first, but once you work on something, you want to show people. My peers weren't interested in me reading 30-40 pages to them.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.

I always have a good pen with me.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper.

I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

I was writing fantasy as soon as I could hold a pen.

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

Every day is a great day when you have a brand new Marlen pen.

I've always been able to write. I've always been able to put a good essay in or say whatever I wanted to say through the pen. That was a gift of mine. I feel like it was what I was meant to do.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.