Quotes About Writing

Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through playing people who are absolutely nothing like me.

I do love the weird, and I realize that I write much in that tradition, so I'm happy to be counted in among some of my favorite authors.

I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

I love the structural part of the writing process.

You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.

I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart.

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

I'm so grateful to be living doing what I love. Whether it's acting in Films or TV shows or writing and directing my own projects.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

I don't have much interest in writing if there are not opportunities to crack open the inherited forms. The writing I love to read most does this as well. I'm a form junkie.

I would say [I love] writing, because lately I've been finishing my book.

There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

Believe it or not, I even love the editing stage. It's something that apparently comes naturally to me.

Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a way to prudently follow the advice to write what you know.

I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction.

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.