Writing Quotes

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

I’ve always been a writer. I’ve always loved words, ever since I was a kid.

I wasn’t prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.

There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I worked hard.

Some songs I write and it takes me like a year to release them.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Can I write you into existence?

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.