Writing Quotes
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Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.
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I write what I write, say what I say, 'cause I feel what I feel, and if I did it different, it would make me a liar! So I'd rather be an honest person than a good liar.
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It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.
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I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
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If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.
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I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.
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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
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I'm very selective about what I write about, and whom I write about, and how much I write about somebody.
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The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.
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Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.
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I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.
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It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.
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I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.
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I started writing every day. I never stopped.
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I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard against it. If I have difficulties in the writing, I just go and do other things. I don't feel a compulsion to write.
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I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.
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I write for myself things that I've gone through.
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I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.
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Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.
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Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.
