Writing Quotes

Anytime I write something that’s trying to be too smart, it doesn’t work.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

With my website, I’m really interactive. I’ve written a lot of things about me.

To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.

I still don’t know if I can write songs. I don’t think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens – not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens – should talk about things that matter to them.

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I’m familiar with. I don’t write stories about the nineteenth century.

The writer is all alone.

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.