Quotes About Writing

It is difficult not to write satire.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.

Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Marketing is the hangover.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

Never regret what you don't write.

When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.

College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you're in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life - you write about the mindset you're in at that moment.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.