Quotes About Writing

Because it makes me happy when the words fall together and the picture comes and the make-believe people do things that delight me. But it's better with you, Constant Reader. Always better with you.

What I didn't realize was how many doors the act of writing unlocks, as if my Dad's old fountain pen wasn't really a pen at all, but some strange variety of skeleton key.

You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

If I'm going to spend a lifetime writing my story, I want it to mean something.

I can write about all of these bizarre and funny characters in my book, "Diggin' Elroy, " because I know them better than anyone else. I have a little bit of all of them in me.

Read something worth writing about or write something worth reading about

No matter who you are, or what side of the tracks society thinks you are from, if you wake up wanting to write, then do what you must to write.

An author's dream does not necessarily come instantly. Rather, it is cultivated and nurtured, every epiphany and idea are like rain drops that bring life to the story being written.

Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.

...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits

Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.

My job as a writer is simple.Write a book I'm proud of, and present it as a gift to the world.Some will love it.Some will hate it.That's the nature of art.

Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.Today is the day you become a writer.

Most people think that making a living from books is fun or joyful, but there's much more to it than what the eyes can see, and I wish I had more time for more profitable and also joyful activities.

Discipline is the bridge between a great idea and a completed novel.

Words I write... go through my mind, like tasting fine wine on the lips.

You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur, ' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies.

Writing heals the quandaries of life.

Writers live twice.

I've probably put my 10, 000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.

What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about.