Writing Quotes
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You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
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I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.
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Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.
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In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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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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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
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I've honestly always been an overly analytical, highly observant person. I was playing music but thinking about it at same time, which was sort of exhausting. Aside from the pain of writing - you're not really in a gang like you are in band, it's a little bit lonelier - I think it was always something that I'd wanted to do. So the transition wasn't abrupt or painful.
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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.
