Writing Quotes
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I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
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I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.
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Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
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I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
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These days, there are times when my academic thinking intervenes in my writing, but it's usually while I'm developing a project and not while I'm writing it.
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It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
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I wasn't afraid of being poor; I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I couldn't imagine sacrificing my writing to anything else.
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We're kinda always writing, so it's like we're always thinking about what's next, so that'd be a yes. We're always constantly wanting to get onto the next thing or the new thing.
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I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page.
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The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed, otherwise I wouldn't write another one. If I wrote the perfect book, I wouldn't have to write again, and I wouldn't want to. That's not true for everyone, but it's true for me. I could walk away then. But so far I haven't managed to do it.
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Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.
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What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?
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I can't envisage stopping writing.
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When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.
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“Writing succeeds at whatever it does in spite of the sparseness of its means relative to the worlds evoked.”
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Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.
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I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language.
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I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.
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When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.
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My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience, but I have learnt just to go with it.
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I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
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When Tupac came out, my writing changed for sure. I learned from it. It was a cultural thing.
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There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you're going to have to take them out in the end.
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Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed.
