Write Quotes
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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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That the object of writing is to write to yourself, to let your self know what you have been trying to avoid.
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It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.
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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
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I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.
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To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.
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It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.
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Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
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Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not.
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What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.
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I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not being able to write it. Which is always a fear. So I like to figure it out, know all the characters, and know almost every scene in the movie before I start writing.
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I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel.
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I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I try to write something, I'd probably end up doing the opposite.
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The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst.
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What I really meant to write to you about today was to tell you that I read your learned and technical and I am sure admirable denouncements of Walt Whitman with a respectful attention due to so much earnestness; and when I had done, and wondered awhile pleasantly at the amount of time for letter-writing the Foreign Office allows its young men, I stretched myself, and got my hat, and went down to the river; and I sat at the water's edge in the middle of a great many buttercups; and there was a little wind; and the little wind knocked the heads of the buttercups together; and it seemed to amuse them, or else something else did, for I do assure you I thought I heard them laugh.
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You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.
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The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.
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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
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The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks. What I wanted to create was a multiplicity of different dragon species, of all shapes and sizes, adapted to their environment and habitats in the same way as birds or other animals we see today.
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Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.
