Writing as a Creative Outlet Quotes

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing.

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.

It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why writing words in books is so precarious. This is why Jesus only wrote in the sand, right? I just - I hate that I wrote that.

What I really, really love is writing. If I can just write and make a really nice living out of that, why would I change that?

I really feel something's missing if I'm not writing.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

It's very hard for me to write back to some of the fan mail, so one of the things I wanted to do was reach out through a book.

I'm not someone who from a young age imagined myself being a writer or had dreams of being a novelist or anything like that, but I was always very driven by ideas and by values, and that is the reason I got into journalism.

I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.

By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

Writing is a good creative outlet... it's a supplement to my music.

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.

People often ask writers where they get their inspiration, and for me, the short answer is that I haven't a clue; I'm just grateful that I get them.

I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job.