Quotes about Writing

Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.

I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.

What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks 'the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,'.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.

she'd find a hidden meaning in every pair of pants, then hurry home to be alone and write about romance

My mother wrote to me and said, "Airplanes leave here every day for Africa. If you need me, I will come." Her love and support encouraged me to dare to live my life with pizzazz.

Along this path of ministry, God has used an approach over and over again that I've finally come to more readily expect. He has taught me to listen to the repetitive requests of the body of Christ, and I will often discover what He wants me to do. Case in point: I had no plan whatsoever to write women's

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

Someone once asked Somerset Maugham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. That's a pro.

Do you understand? I hadn't written anything good. It might be years before I would, if I ever did at all. That didn't matter. What counted was that I had, after years of running from it, actually sat down and done my work.