Writing Appreciation Quotes

I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.

I love great writing.

I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

Interviewing Hugh McIlvanney, I got to read lots of his stuff again. I'm a big fan of his writing.

It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.

I was fortunate to have many teachers who encouraged me - one of the first was Dianne Derrick, my 5th grade teacher at Woodbury Elementary. She challenged us to write creatively and praised my work, but most importantly, she treated writing like it was important.

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy.

I've always liked new writing.

The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.

Usually, as a fiction writer, you get e-mails saying, 'I liked your book,' or 'I didn't like it.' You don't get something saying, 'I'm really glad this is in the world.'

My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.

I've learned to allow myself the room to fall in love with what I'm writing.

As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it.

I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it.

All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.

I have readers everywhere: from a radiologist who decides to compliment me on my writing while inserting a probe to check my ovaries to 80-year-olds who send me emails. And, of course, women my age everywhere.

People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.

I'm the luckiest writer on earth.

Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.