Write Quotes
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You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people it doesn't. Some people are 'I'm not in the mood for that; thanks.'
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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I'd love to write for One Direction. I think they've done incredibly well.
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When I write and produce something, I know exactly how I want it to sound, and I have a very strong interpretation of it. I can't really think of anyone at the moment I'd particularly like to play a duet with. You never know, though, I might receive an offer tomorrow and say, "Yeah, that'd be great." But it's not something that's on my mind.
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Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.
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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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If you can write it, I can be it.
