14 Quotes About Writing From Female Authors

As women we tend to use more emotional language in our writing and are actually more inclined to focus on the inner life as opposed to male writers. Personally, as both a writer and a reader, I am absolutely, without a doubt predominantly drawn to this type of writing—Susanna Kaysen, anyone? From her own experience, relationships, and worldview, Girl Interrupted showed us that writing and keeping a journal is a powerful way for women to express their emotions and thoughts about the world by getting them onto a page.

14 Quotes About Writing
From famous Female Authors

“This business of becoming a writer is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?”

Anne Lamott

“It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.” 

P.D. James

“Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.”

Meg Rosoff

"You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say."

Dorothy Parker

“People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things, and brings opposites together. Grammar is a wonderful way of organizing the world how you'd like it to be.”

Delphine de Vigan

"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see, and what it means."

Joan Didion

"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn."

Anne Frank

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”

Natalie Goldberg

"Writing is not a solitary experience. It's a conversation. You're always responding to something."

Zadie Smith

“The most important thing about writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one."

Nora Roberts

“When I say work, I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.”

Margaret Laurence

“A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.”

Angela Carter

“Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now.”

Annie Dillard

“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them, and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”

Erin Morgenstern

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