Write Quotes
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Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.
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When I write, I want something to sound good itself.
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That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.
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I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.
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I don't write about my life in my column.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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You write about what you know.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.
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I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
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I write in public libraries and sometimes coffee shops. I can't write at home and gave up trying long ago. I need activity around me that I'm forced to block out. It helps me focus.
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You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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I write about true-life type things.
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Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
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Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
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I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
