Quotes About Writing

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

Having room to run and having just the space to use your imagination and create stories out of everyday life, I think that had a lot to do with me wanting write. And write songs

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.

My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.

to live life as a writer is a very lucky thing.

Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.

The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.

A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.