Writing Quotes

Every time I write a song my approach changes.

I didn’t become a writer to write about me.

That’s how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.

Until you know who you are you can’t write.

I’m just a typewriter of the small universe of you and me I write memories into words and it becomes poetry.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

I was writing since I can remember – I just didn’t know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.

Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.

Many people – and I think I am one of them – are more productive when they’ve had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I’m far better able to write.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer them keeping in mind that you are writing your children’s future with your answers.