Quotes About Writing

You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.

If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not.

Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

I love 30 Rock. It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

I love to write and do photography, as a cathartic experience.

Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.

Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.

We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to experience nourishing relationships.

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space.

I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

I love photography. I like to write. I like coaching. I've made jewelry. I'm very creative.

My advice to writers: thank goodness we can revise and adjust and tighten and rethink before going public with our words. Revision is our friend. Our best friend. I love revision.

Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

In a lot of ways, being a writer is a lousy job - grueling, emotionally taxing, terrible hours, no health care - so if it wasn't about love, what would be the point?

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

Well, I love TV, and I love a good script.

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.