Writing as an Art Form Quotes

The idea that you could make a living from writing always thrilled me.

Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

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

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

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.

I get a great high from writing.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

I write the books to amuse myself.

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

You know what you are best at, and writing is just not my thing, but I like it.

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

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.

As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

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.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

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.

Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.

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

I think I went more toward writing because that's my talent. I don't think I was a great performer... And I like being behind the scenes a little bit.

I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.

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.