Bill Keller Quotes

Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.

I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.

It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I’m so very bad at it. It’s the greatest peace when I’m in a scene, and it’s just me and the character, that’s it, that’s where I want to live my life.

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets.

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing.

Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most important thing and the most rewarding thing.

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do - the actual act of writing - turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.

I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a story, and we were supposed to finish it. I remember liking that. But I didn't think about deciding to become a writer until high school at about the age of 16.

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your heart if you let it. It will fill your pages and help to fill your life.

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.