Quotes About Writing

I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.

It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over those, and I started with local artists in Boston, writing records for them.

When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.

I'm always writing. And, I mean, I always counsel people when they call me a musician: I really do not have the skills of a musician. I really don't think like a musician, though I love music and I perform and sing.

I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't forgive you one false note about love, about which they too are expert.

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction.

I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.

I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.

Writing is just my first love. And I still have some issues with telling people what to do.