Honore de Balzac Quotes

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

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.

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

All I'm about is just the pen.

I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.

I'm a wizard at poetry.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

People who can write a book usually do.

Yeah, I think it's like any God-given gift. You writers have the gift of perception. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. And it's the same thing with you [Lorraine], it's God-given.

I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on a novel. My third novel, in fact.

I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish anything else.

Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always been the basis of everything I do. I'm a writer who performs, not a performer who writes. I love the act of writing. It's still a thrill for me.

I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.