Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

I want to write, produce, act, and get into fashion design.

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

I've always loved the dialogue that Pedro Almodovar writes.

I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

I always want to write something better than the last book.

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

I don't like travelling if I know I have to write about it.

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

I love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it.

I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.

I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

Writing down your trades is the best exercise in the world.

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.

People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.

When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing

In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

I was always writing. I just didn't know if I was any good.

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me.

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

I like to stay artistic. So I always like to draw or write.

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