Writing Quotes

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.

I write songs for myself, but I never keep them. I’m like, ‘O.K., that was my therapy – it’s out of my body now. I’m going to give it to somebody else so it can be their therapy, too.’

Write. Write until it stops hurting.

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.

I hate the word surrogate, because what does that mean? Like when people talk about I`m my father’s confident, at one point, they were actually saying major newspapers were publicly were writing that I was Vice Presidential candidate. I`m saying no. I`m a daughter.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.