Writing Quotes

Writers should provoke disagreement.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.