Writing Quotes

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why writing words in books is so precarious. This is why Jesus only wrote in the sand, right? I just – I hate that I wrote that.

I wouldn’t say I was a born writer; I’m a born thinker.

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

Writing spiteful poetry in a chapel I realized I have to love you no matter what you do.

I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

You write poems or you are a poem. That is where you’ll shine.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

I’ll write my secrets in the sand next to driftwood and seashells then let the waves wash them away. Wishing forgetting was that easy. – secrets in the sand.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.