Writing Quotes

Start Shaky. Start unsure. Start scared. You are writing a brave beginning to this chapter.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

I do not know what I think until I write it.

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That’s the kind of world I live in. It’s very sort of flamboyant, and that’s the kind of way I write. I love it.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.