Michelle Visage Quotes

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.

I've been writing since I was really young.

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

I think writing gives me creative freedom.

I could never really decide what I wanted to be when I grew up, and for a while, I thought that maybe I wanted to be a writer... I've always loved to write, that form of expression.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

I started writing stories as a child.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

I love writing different things.