Roger Rosenblatt Quotes

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it.

It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.

I just love language. I mean, I love it. I love stage directions. Any opportunity to write. I hadn't written in so long, I get very crazy and miserable. I - it's like not seeing my kids: I can't do it for very long.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

I love to write. It's my first love.

And I love writing. I've always loved writing.

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

I loved the process of writing.

When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

Over time, I decided to take up only those stories I love.

If you enjoy your journey as a writer, you will never find it difficult to write.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

I enjoy writing.