Writing as a Form of Self-Expression Quotes

Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

I feel like an emperor only when I'm writing.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.

I'm a storyteller, and everyone in this family expresses themselves through writing to get through life's milestones.

You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't an orator, unlike my mother and my grandfather, who both spoke beautifully and spoke all the time. Maybe I grew up with too many voices around me, as a matter of fact.

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

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

Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it...I have written because it fulfilled me. ... I did it for the pure joy of the things. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.

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.

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

I chose poetry. Actually, poetry chose me.

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

I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did.

I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.

It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil a contract or meet a deadline. I might have hacked things out, but it was always stuff I loved.

I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.