Write Quotes

You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.

When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on “What’s the next piece I’m going to write, or draw, that’ll pay this month’s rent?” And so going out to play ball with my kids was a low priority.

That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.

Those who commit the murders write the reports.

One day I’m going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do….is to watch these birds.

When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

I was desperate for new material, so anything I can write a joke about that works is in the act. No matter who it offends, or who it bothers – doesn’t matter if its something my wife hates.

Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.