Writing Quotes

I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very high reputations, even Nobel prize winners, often sell in very low figures.

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

Sometimes, my words need a home too and that is why i write about you.

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

Good copy can’t be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You’ve got to believe in the product.

Sometimes, we express our words through writing, even though it needs to be spoken.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

When I write poems about my feelings for you, it seems that even my words blush.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.