Write Quotes

But when I would write a story – I know it’s going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile – I would, in a way, start living it.

I like to write sad songs. They’re much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don’t want to hear them as much.

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.

I don’t think you ever write a song with any intention except the song’s about such and such per say.

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

Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.