Quotes about Writing

Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.

I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.

In a sense, I wrote the book about Jesus that I wanted to read.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire in the next town. And I keep having these panicky episodes where I corner my husband and rant at him: 'I don't have anywhere to write! I can't write! I don't have a place to write!'

Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.