Writing Quotes

Too much has already been said and written about women’s sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

And then writer in you is so homesick of pain, that you plead your wounds to bleed and ache.

The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art’s sake than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore – and then there will be time enough for art.

I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.

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

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music, but I also like the idea of there being really real stuff as well.

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

Everything that creative people think and do is from the heart.