Quotes About Passionate Writing

#1. I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

Jerome Lawrence

#2. As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a certain degree you're at the mercy of what is available, what you're reading, what you become passionate about, and ultimately, what people want to hire you for.

Elijah Wood

#3. [Speaking about writing her first novel] You have to be passionate enough about it and I was.

Kristyn Van Cleave

#4. I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.

Susan Sontag

#5. I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.

Evangeline Lilly

#6. Before I published any of my own stories, I read a great many stories by people as passionate about writing as I was, and I learned something from everyone I read
something most important what I should not try to write.

Dorothy Allison

#7. It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a young student who is inspired to write me and let me know that my book has helped him or her find her way.

Julia Alvarez

#8. I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.

Edna Ferber

#9. Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.

Carla H. Krueger

#10. I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to see what the day will bring, how I will feed that passion.

John Densmore

#11. The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is as strong as the dream. He is not someone possessed, like Cassandra, but a passionate, easily tempted explorer who fully intends to get home again, like Odysseus.

John Gardner

#12. I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

Jeffrey Archer

#13. Because there are a million thoughts that never sleep
and a million more that wake up as each second passes by ...
And it's insanity inside
but I can no longer keep quiet
Oh, I can't speak as well
I need to write
I have to write ...

Sanhita Baruah

#14. I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very passionate about it.

Judd Apatow

#15. If you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.

Charles Bukowski

#16. The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

George Saunders

#17. I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being ... It happens because the storyteller's own experience ... has moved him to an emotion so passionate that he can no longer keep it shut up in his heart.

Murasaki Shikibu

#18. Personally, I think so-called "common language" is more interesting and apropos than "proper English"; it's passionate and powerful in ways that "wherefore art thou ass and thy elbow" just isn't.

J.R. Ward

#19. The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

Karen Salmansohn

#21. It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling really guilty for not writing something today.

Paul Haggis

#22. I am a passionate, not an intellectual writer, which means my characters must plunge ahead of me to live the story

Ray Bradbury

#23. I'm so passionate about my writing, there's page-spunk pouring out of my fingertips.

Hertzan Chimera

#24. I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

Gary Cherone

#25. Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

Charlotte Eriksson

#26. The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking.

Megan Smith

#27. I want to read every book that's written
hear every song that was sung
I want to gaze at every cloud
and hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue.

Sanober Khan

#28. The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.

Natalie Goldberg

#29. My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. I'm writing and putting together my next few things. Even during the Red Army process, I've been writing and developing things, so that now that I'm done and with efforts supporting it throughout this process, I'm armed and ready to go with some things that I'm really passionate about.

Gabe Polsky

#31. A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.

Roman Payne

#32. I attribute the black tones in my films to Stephen King, Tim Burton, Joe Hill and Richard Matheson. However, most of my writing is influenced by mental health. I'm incredibly passionate about shedding light on the stigmas associated with mental illnesses.

Anna Akana

#33. I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#34. I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.

Michelle D. Kwasney

#35. My beloved husband goes through radiation, and a book of sonnets is my passionate response. And then after he dies, I write another book of poems as a farewell. The two keywords here are passion and joy. I simply have a passion for writing, and I do it with joy.

Jane Yolen

#36. You don't deserve my image in your head. You don't deserve my memories in your chest.

Coco J. Ginger

#37. Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.

Christina Westover

#38. Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not come to mind had we not brooded at our desks and searched for answers with passionate devotion.

Max Weber

#39. I made a big conscious decision in my life when I was writing all these big action movies and doing different kind of fare but very proud of it, I was finding myself less and less passionate about doing it.

Ric Roman Waugh

#40. She loved me deeply, madly and passionately. She knew no other way!

Avijeet Das

#41. The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#42. When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it.

Sara Sheridan

#43. I just try to be true to myself and write about things I'm passionate about. I think what most people don't like about movies is they can tell that most movies are a product, and they don't mean that much to the people who make them.

Judd Apatow