Jane Smiley Quotes

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I think there must be something wrong with me as a writer. Because all my friends who are writers find reasons to hate everything about their day. But I just love writing. I love starting the day with language and seeing if I can make something of it.

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

Ever since I started writing in college, I have, save for a few short breaks here and there, been working away on something. I love it, I need it, and so it never occurred to me to put writing on the back burner.

I hope and pray that I'll be one of those fortunate people who have many, many books to write. I don't begrudge writing. I love the whole thing!

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

Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.

The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.

I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.