Quotes About Writing

I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader.

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things were and are, you hardly need anything else.

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sitting up?

I just like a great song. I just wanted to be this true reflection of what is in my heart and it ended up becoming my life which was kind of surreal, but I do enjoy writing for other people.

Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

Details are the Life of Prose.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.