Write Quotes
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
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I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.
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Writing kept her sane. Kept her form spinning out of control. Kept her tongue still whenever some white person spoke down to her. She had to write, it was the only thing that was completely hers, that she could look forward to at the end of her long day.
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I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.
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I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.
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Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know that I want to settle there. I prefer the creative spur of exile. () But wherever I am I shall be Jewish, and that sound will inform every syllable I write. I am blessed with a long ancestry of wisdom, prophecy, and promise, a line of overwhelming creative achievements, courage, humor, and, above all, a dogged and chronic permanence, the greatest legacy of all.
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I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.
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I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.
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There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write.
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I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
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If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.
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Most people don't know me, that is why they write such things in which most is not true. I cry very very often because it hurts and I worry about the children, all my children all over the world, I live for them.
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I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.
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It doesn't have a life of its own. You guys can write about it. But it's been weird.
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I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
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I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.
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I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it's very disillusioning. You have to deal with how people let you down in terms of that. Because I think I'm basically a nice person and I think I'm a real person, and a lot of people aren't.
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If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
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People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.
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What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper, write it in the present tense. You might begin by writing, 'I am so happy and grateful now that...' and then explain how you want your life to be in every area.
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I lived to write, and wrote to live.
