Writing Quotes

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

This Old Testament – containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality – is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy – if there were anyone to be blasphemed – blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.

I type in one place, but I write all over the house.

Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard. There’s nothing to relate it to.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

The way I work uses a very on-the-spot flow, and I write the lyrics and the music when I feel them coming.

I could write another love poem but my metaphors get mixed like the drinks I had the night that more than our paths crossed – strongly.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.