Joan Armatrading Quotes

I was as eager a writer as I was a reader.

I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be.

I started writing seriously when I was about 12. I am always in the mood.

When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving my room.

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do was finish my education and have my nights free for writing.

Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.

I've always been entranced by writing.

I even dream about writing. I'm talking seeing words across the page, whole paragraphs.

I was not especially a writer back in college.

I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them.

No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry. I never shared it with anybody.

I'm way into writing, as much as I can.

Love with writing began from school days itself and with passage of time my bond with it went on becoming stronger.

When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with fantasies, and I have to write them all down.

I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed.

A writer has to write something that they're - sit down with or are interested in every day of their life.

I don't have the time to think about what someone else thinks of me because I'm busy making films.

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.