Mary Pipher Quotes

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

You're never gonna outwrite the movement of the white clouds and the blue sky. You're never going to. There are times when I try to write beautifully, but I don't know if I'm trying to exorcise my own demons. If I am, there are other ones lurking beneath, because they keep coming out. Maybe little by little I'm fumigating.

Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'

Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.

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.

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.

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

You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big.

If you want to write, then write; if you don't want to write, then don't write. I fell into the former category, and I just made the decision that I'd keep on because I liked it and might someday do something decent.

Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they say, listen to how they say it and listen to what they do not say. Surprise yourself. Scare yourself.

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

I've wanted to write ever since I've gotten into comics. I wrote little things for myself when I was doing mini-comics and things, before becoming a professional. But I just figure at some point or another, I've got to make the leap. I just have to do it.

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.

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

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

I wanted to write.

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 never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

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 started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.