Quotes about Writing
I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.
— Melody Carlson
Working on my first novel, 'Groundswell' - about a woman recovering from a bad breakup who falls in love with surfing - I spent a month south of the border. And when I wasn't writing or surfing, I was eating. A lot.
— Katie Lee
It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.
— Tina Fey
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.
— William Wordsworth
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
— George Bernard Shaw
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads
— Marcus Aurelius
My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
— Ted Dekker
I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.
— Maya Angelou
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
— William Golding
There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.
— John Updike
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
— John Milton