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Quotes About Writing

[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing us and he's persuading us. And that's why I love to read the prose.
~ Jeffrey Rosen
Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.
~ Jen Lancaster
I can't write. I would love to. I don't really have an interest in it, to be honest. I'll leave that to my fiance.
~ Jennifer Aniston
I just love film making; all aspects of it. I love the idea of writing but I just don't feel like I could really do it. I didn't even graduate from school.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.
~ Jerry B. Jenkins
Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them.
~ Jessica Day George
I love writing to my little sister. It's a very nice, easy kind of way I always find inspiration.
~ Jillian Hervey
I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life on anyone, nor would I, could I, ever give it up.
~ Jillian Medoff
I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.
~ Jim Gaffigan
I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.
~ Jim Rash
I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.
~ Joan Larkin
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
~ John Dryden
My name became a brand and I'd love to say it was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.
~ John Grisham
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.
~ John Steinbeck
I love it, man; I'm 23 years old and I'm lucky enough to write movies as a job! I just feel really blessed and can't believe it's happening.
~ Jonah Hill
I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.
~ Jonathan Weeks
When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there.
~ Judd Apatow
I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.
~ Judi Shekoni
I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
~ Judy Blume
If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.
~ Julia Spencer-Fleming
I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.
~ Karen Russell
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
~ Karen Thompson Walker