Jennifer Donnelly Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Writing, Study, Quiet

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing

• And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Running, Baby, Lonely

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.164, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Grief, Writing, Would Be

  Jennifer Donnelly (2007). “The Tea Rose: A Novel”, p.561, Macmillan

• The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Pain, Rain, Writing

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.202, Bloomsbury Publishing

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