Quotes About Writing

You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day.

My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.

If I won the lottery tomorrow - which would be a real trick, since I haven't entered - and was independently wealthy for the rest of my life, I'd write comic books, because it's what I like doing.

At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.

I've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that.

I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

I re-read a lot of my college writing while we were in rehearsals, and it was so strange. It was wonderful to go back and revisit that part of my life. It did kind of make me hungry for it again.

The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.

Most things good for writing are bad for life.

I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I get in the mood I pull the stuff back out.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development.

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

I spend my whole life trying to put up a front to prevent people from seeing certain parts of me. Weirdly, when I go to write, I feel like I have to expose it, almost compulsively.

When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I am at that moment in my life.

The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.