Stacey Abrams Quotes

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

Writing is what I do. It's what makes me tick.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

Writing gave me the world.

All that time that we spend tweeting our thoughts and emotions to our next of kin, we could be writing the great American novel, starting a business, or just living.

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

I say it's easier to write for other people than write for myself.

I do like writing. When I was a little kid, I used to love writing funny, silly stories - and my mom would always encourage it. I don't know why I ever stopped!

I'm constantly creating and writing.

My big dream has always been to write and create my own things.

I am trying to write a play that is big and I feel represents me - that's my big ambition.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.

Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all waiting to hear it.

You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for you and you can't write anybody's book but your own.

It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.

As my kid gets a little bit older, if I feel like I have a little bit more time on my hands, I'd like to get more into developing ideas and writing things.

I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.