Writing Quotes

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

I definitely fall in love quickly, and I’m very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love.

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

I do not write. My lungs just breathe in words.

I had to say to myself, Don’t write the music. Let the music write itself.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.