Quotes About Writing

When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer, ' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write.

There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it.

Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.

I'd be lying if I said killing off characters wasn't therapeutic in some way.

The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.

I think much of a #writerslife is figuring out how much coffee is needed to fuel madness & creativity while avoiding having to pee.

Other people dream while they are asleep. I plot new book ideas.

Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.

The writer's life is a sacred wonder.

The road from 'here' to 'there' is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand.

Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.

It's easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What's difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write.

To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.

Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.

The greatest thing about writing is that you get to shape more than one life.

Writing is life – it's where my heart leads me each day, and how I understand the world we live in.

A few diaries could replace tons of self help books simply because their written in the first person...

I would write my tears, weeping out my pain - I would empty my veins for ink.

As a writer, I'm always at the mercy of my inspiration, my intuition, and my imagination.

There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two.

I've] never written a thing without a record on.

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen… I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servant girls in the kitchen.

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.