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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
When you're researching you're learning. When you're writing, you're teaching.
A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.
Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.
Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.
I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.
When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.
To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.
Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.
I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.
An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.
Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write.
We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.
I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.
I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.
I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.
Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.
It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.
I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch.
To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.
If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.
Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.
But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.
Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.