Writing Quotes

With all these past fears still written on my skin, it bruises me to let you in. Trauma’s that this body holds, still guard these tactile lips untold.

The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next. It is still unwritten.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey – like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.