Quotes About Writing

In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.

Everyone thinks they can write a play you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

I'm kind of a rebound junkie. So. when a relationship goes sour, I look at the sweetness in life elsewhere. So, I date a bit. The best catharsis is to write jokes and tell 4, 000 people about it.

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

Writing is pure sweet freedom.

A writer should feel deeply from his heart of the joys and sorrows of people. And he must write as honestly as possible. Then only can he claim to be a writer.

Writing is not a hobby. It's the only way I get to shut up the demons in my head.

When people ask me about the definition of a copywriter, I say, "If I become a good copywriter, I will have the ability to bring nonliving people to life.

By writing quotes...I mark a trail of my soul's journey in this realm.

When life, inspiration, and pen meet.

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison

You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.

Until you begin to write, then you see wonders.

Ever since I could read, I've wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don't think this is worth writing about. But this book isn't for you. It's for me.

Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.

Writing is my passion and burns in me like a fire. I'm always writing and honing my skills to feed the flames.

While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights)

My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.

Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one's memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.

nothing is lifelesswhen the moon writes its screedon the silvern sand silence-From the poem:"The Universe In Blossom

When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.