Julien Green Quotes

I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

I love writing different things.

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

I think writing gives me creative freedom.

Everyone thinks they've got a book inside them.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I believe in my writing.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

I feel I've got 10 books in me.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

I started writing stories as a child.

In 1957, I decided: write or perish.

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.