Writing Quotes

I wrote ‘Oath’ for Cher Lloyd because there were really no best-friend anthems out there. Not only did she love it, she wanted me to rap on it, too!

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject so you know you are getting the best possible information.

Change is uncomfortable. Write that down.

Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

I don’t write cheques anymore because I end up signing them “with love, shah rukh”

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

I don’t know how to write love letters.