Writing Quotes
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I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
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Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.
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One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
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Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.
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Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.
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The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even if you're a writer who has avoided institutions your whole life, you're still going to be reading a lot of writers who have MFAs, and are affiliated with universities.
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If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.
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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
