Quotes About Writing

Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

It's gut instinct that helps me determine how to write a story. I love the surreal because I am faced with the challenge of making the unbelievable believable. That challenge is thrilling.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my life is when I was writing the sequels to "MASH". I was able to ridicule everyone.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing.

I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the world.

I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.

"Et Tu, Babe" was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it's my whole life.

The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.

I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is.

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

I never met a word I didn't love

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.