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Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.
Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.
My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.
There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.
To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.
Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.
In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.
Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.
The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.
Meg Pokrass writes like a brain looking for a body. Wonderful, dark, unforgiving.
I'm an aspiring writer. I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.
There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women
Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.
I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.
A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love.
Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.
I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.
Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.
I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.
I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.
So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
I would argue that coffee has been far more important to literature than alcohol.
I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.
That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.
In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.
I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.
Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.
It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.
I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.