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Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people.

The appeal of writing a romance was that I'd never written one before the The Thorn and The Blossom.

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books

Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

I think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing.

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.

Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.

If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.

This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

It's pretty much the songs I write that dictate what vibe it should be and what singers it should be.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.

Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.

When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.

I always say to my students, if you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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