Fay Weldon Quotes About Writing
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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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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.
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Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.
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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.
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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.
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