Quotes About Writing

Therefore, the person who is unable to write letters and notes never becomes a dangerous seducer.

My writing isn't a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in Hoboken isn't Faulkneresque.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life.

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.

As such, anything is always possible, even if your protagonist is a plumber. But it's the possibility, the limitless possibilities, of any fake life, that make writing about it so challenging.

I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.

I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.

I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad.

How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?

Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.

Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow.

My books arose from my own experience, when I sought guidance in practical leadership in my career. In sum, I strive to write the kind of book that I would find valuable in my own life.

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.

I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.