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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

I do find that most fans are aware of my writing career and have known my real name for many years.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition.

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

To be honest I'd just love to keep writing hits for other people... That's kind of my secret dream.

For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.

I've been writing verses For 60 years...phew! And d'yer know why I did it? T'was especially for you

You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.

I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'

This strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.

You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.

I needed it to have experiences I could write about. I thought I was someone who had nothing to say.

For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.

Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?

As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

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