Writing Quotes
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Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.
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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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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
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A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn't read and write. And my dad was very proud of me.
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In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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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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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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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
