Writing Impact Quotes

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.

It is so impossible to predict how much influence what you write will have, and what sorts of anxieties and imaginaries it will tap into.

You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.

I like to have something that makes me want to write. Otherwise, I'm just writing for the sake of it. I feel like if I've got something to say, I'll say it the right way.

It is such a crazy idea that maybe something that I wrote or something that I put on a record would affect people at all.

I think that successful writers somehow capture truths that resonate with readers.

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

The way you write affects what you say.

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

Writing is like shouting into the world. So when someone shouts back, it's a really big deal. To have people who read hundreds and hundreds of books a year say, 'Hey, we thought this was really great,' that's a huge self-esteem boost.

Every single day, I get letters - very moving, overwhelming letters - testifying how much my books have meant to people in times of crisis in their lives, when they were very ill, say. If I ever doubted that writing could play an important part in people's lives, I don't doubt that now.

I'm given a lot of credit with opening the doors for Christian fiction. It was kind of a difficult field when I got into it... But I don't feel like a king.

My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I've had problems with writers, it doesn't matter how great of an actor you are. If the writing is bad, you're going to struggle.

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.

When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that there are people out there reading your work, people who may be deeply affected by what you do, that you are writing not just for yourself, but for them.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about.

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?

I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.