Writing Quotes

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act’s limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.

Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.

I’m not used to writing about happy emotions, I’m just used to pulling from my sad or angry – happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

There’s still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I’m not trying to say I’m not happy with the novels I’ve written in the past. But it always feels to me like there’s another one that I have to write that will really say what I want to say, and really paint this world that I can see hazily in my head.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

I only write first editions.