If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
In the family, writing wasn't anything anyone understood - being a writer in the real world? How could it be? We didn't have those mirrors.
Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.
Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.
I'm a storyteller, and everyone in this family expresses themselves through writing to get through life's milestones.
Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.
Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
I have never sought the reason why I write.
I think without writing I would feel completely useless.
I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.
I write based on how I feel.
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 was always told you're not going to make much money from writing. You can actually do it. Now I've built a really good, big house out of words.
At least I can write.
Once I began college, I was committed to writing, which I think is different from saying I wanted to become a writer. I knew I would always write; I just wasn't always sure how I would go about doing so.
I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job.
What I enjoy as entertainment is what I enjoy writing.
If someone told me I had to stop writing stories, that would be the end of me.
I don't exorcise anything with my writing. I'm sure people do, but I don't.
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.
