Writing as a Form of Communication Quotes

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.

I love writing. I feel more connected to that than I do a lot of the other things.

Lyrics is commissioned work, it is my profession. But poetry is my statement to life.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

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

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

I feel like if I couldn't write, I would explode.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

I think of the part of me that writes as the most private self. It's the part that's engaged the least with the rest of the world's needs.

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 ultimately write for myself and the people I love.

The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing's fun. You're getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

Even if someone doesn't like it, or just likes it for me, storytelling has been the one true love story of my entire life.

Never regret what you don't write.

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