Writing Strength Quotes

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.

I think that was always my strength. I was never a great player, but I could write.

I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.

I had never really co-written. I thought it was weak or something if I needed to collaborate.

Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.

One of my strengths as a writer is that I'm a good problem-solver. I write these unthinking, ungoverned first drafts. The project for me always is to turn that instinctive stuff into pages that work.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell.

When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.

As you can tell from watching the show, I'm not a strong joke writer per se.

If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.