Quotes About Writing

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

I love directing my music videos and writing video treatments, and I think it's all just because I love the visual aspect of it as well.

Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire; it's just not my nature.

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.

I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.

Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing, writing or singing... or producing.

Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing.

Someday I would love to write about Vincent van Gogh - his paintings and letters continue to inspire me very much. But it remains hard to find the time and inner rest to write.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.

A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning.

A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.

My sister and brother are both writers as well. We are constantly discussing story and plot lines. And I love to discuss story ideas with my husband.

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better I would love to be a writer.