Writing Quotes

As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.

Paul Auster
- Trying
- Book
- Challenges
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

Sue Grafton

I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.

Francis Chan
- Writing
- Respond
I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

Steve Earle
- Writing
- Song
- Girl
The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.

Erica Jong
- World
- Thinking
- Political
In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.

Sherman Alexie
- Trying
- Effort
- Delusion
I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.

Sherman Alexie
- Alcohol
- Accounts
- Addict
I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.

Ethan Canin