
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

“Honestly, I think Robert and I should write a movie together. He has a very fertile mind. And he's good in bed.

A witty saying proves nothing.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.