Writing as a Means of Expression Quotes

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

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.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a dream.

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.

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.

Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.

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.

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'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 lived to write, and wrote to live.

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

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.

I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

I've had a few jobs, but if you want to be a writer, you're better off getting a job that doesn't require that you do anything.

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'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.

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.

More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.

I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.