Fay Weldon Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

  Fay Weldon

  Real, Writing, Stories

• Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.

  Fay Weldon

  Writing, Gathering, Thorns

• Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

  Fay Weldon

  Writing, People, Generosity

• The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

  Fay Weldon

  Writing, Practice, Peculiar

• Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

  Fay Weldon

  Confidence, Writing, Impossible

• one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

  Fay Weldon

  Writing, Learning, States

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.137, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

  Fay Weldon

  Writing, Style, Looks

• Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.

  Fay Weldon

  Writing, Occupation, Profession

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