Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.
Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
You write a lot of bad songs before you write good ones. It takes time!
I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.
Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.
Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.
Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.
When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.
Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.
I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.
I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else.
All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.
The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.
You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.
What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.
It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.
I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.
It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.
If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service.
For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.
I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.
I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.
You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.
Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.
What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view.
Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.
You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on it
When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.
Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.
I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.