Quotes About Writing

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write.

Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case.

I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written.

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

I got a pit bull from a shelter, so my whole life is centered on this dog, and I've been writing a lot of dog jokes. I should probably give up now, because I'm writing jokes about my dog.

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.

Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.

I do a lot of rewriting. It's very painful.

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.

I'm not the best at expressing my feelings other than in songs or on paper. It's just been such a blessing for me my whole life to get my feelings out there in a positive way.