Write Quotes

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.

When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.

No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I’m jealous I didn’t write it.

It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.

You just write about things that happen.

Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.