Divya Dutta Quotes

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

Writing will remain a passion project.

I've always liked new writing.

I enjoy writing.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

Headline writing is an art form.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty?

I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.

Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.

I can't emphasize enough how much of a writer I am.

I've been writing for a long time.

Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.

I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.

I think all writers have a style, a particular voice and rhythm that you have to find.

I prefer writing originals.

I've always loved writing.

Favorite subject? I would have to say creative writing.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.