Quotes About Writing

I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my ability to do the same with my own life.

I think all of the decisions I make about my life and writing are the preparation - what I choose to write about and the immersive nature of the lifestyle I choose for playwriting.

[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

Good writers touch life often.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can't avoid that.

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.

I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.