Writing Quotes

I don’t really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That’s why me go write a song called ‘Illegitimate Children.’ It took me years to find out I was one.

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.

What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.

Sharing your emotions with paper is so much more comforting than sharing with someone else.