Quotes About Writing

I just love expressing my joy and my mind through what I wear, or how I cook, or how I dance, or how I write or perform a song - how I move.

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.

I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.

I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write.

I'm always trying to make movies. It's what I love to do more than anything. I love to write and direct.

I enjoy the kind of characters that allow you to write the dark stuff. I love Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, and when I'm writing for Dracula or Jekyll & Hyde, I get a chance to use that vocabulary.

After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as I did. She has a number of short stories.

If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.

In the summer, we write life's summary with the slow waves of love flowing over the sandy beach. The slow breeze and the warm sun write our memories.

i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.

A good story is always written with the tears of tragedies and triumphs, and the love and kindness of our lives.

I balance you on the end of my pen.Teetering between loveand letting go.

Did he get his brain fever, and then write all those terrible things, or had he some cause for it all? I suppose I shall never know, for I dare not open the subject to him. And yet that man we saw yesterday! He

a sort of journal which I can write in whenever I feel inclined. I do not suppose there will be much interest to other people; but it is not intended for them.

I feel I am dying of weakness, and have barely strength to write, but it must be done if I die in the doing. I went to bed as usual, taking care that the flowers were placed

My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale.

La vida es como una errata tipográfica: constantemente estamos escribiendo y reescribiendo las cosas

MANY YEARS AGO I REALIZED THAT A BOOK, a novel, is a dream that asks itself to be written in the same way we fall in love with someone: the dream becomes impossible to resist, there's nothing you can do about it, you finally give in and succumb even if your instincts tell you to run the other way because this could be, in the end, a dangerous game—someone will get hurt.

there's no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.

knowing that people may not want to hear what I really feel needs to be written

Nock's "plan of action" was "a plan of no action at all. To Nock there was clearly only one path to follow, and that was to learn, to think, to write, to informally teach, and then, simply wait.

Writing is a mirror. If someone doesn't like what you write, maybe it's because they don't like what they see in the reflection.

When I was a girl, the only thing I wanted to do was write books that would take me around the world. I guess when the place where you are doesn't feel like home, you always want to be somewhere else.