Writing Quotes

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I’ve always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

They built many monuments for their love, I wrote a lot of poetry for my love.

Shy Carter helped me write ‘One Call Away.’ He is a brand new artist. I really want to help jumpstart his career because I think he’s super-talented.

You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.