Quotes about Writing

Spend sunny afternoons writing. Take weekends in the country. Dream. Drink good wine, eat fabulous cheese and great bread. Make the kind of love that destroys the bed.

Rachel Hauck is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling author. She is a RITA and Christy Award finalist. The Wedding Dress was named Inspirational Novel of the Year by Romantic Times. Rachel lives in central Florida with her husband and two pets and writes from her ivory

I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I have the talent to do it. I'm going to do it because I have something important to say to the world. I refuse to let anything get in my way.

For a novelist, being 'too emotional' is often a good thing. The only thing you have to sell is your emotional experiences.

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.

Working on my first novel, 'Groundswell' - about a woman recovering from a bad breakup who falls in love with surfing - I spent a month south of the border. And when I wasn't writing or surfing, I was eating. A lot.

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.