Quotes About Writing

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

In love matters; keep your pen from paper.

Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer

If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.

I love writing for myself. I read them [my stories], I cry over them sometimes.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.

When I'm writing, the romance is always the most important thing to me, but I really love adding in slices of real life, and for me that real life always includes animals.

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again... The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but its not all I want to do-be a professional liar for the rest of my life.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.

I'd love to be able to write again, but I'm so repetitive. And it was all about fear. Never positive. Just indulgent about my sadness.

One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to describe unhappy loves, even if they have nothing to do with their own.

I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.

Love is easy, and I love writing.

Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.

The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular.