I write what's given me to write.
I don't write to be understood; I write to understand.
The thing I write will be the thing I write.
I write - and then I write some more.
I don't write stories, I write characters.
Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.
What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No one can tell you your own secret.
I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because h...
I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I w...
The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pa...
We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.
This is a book. It is a book I found in a box. I found the box in the attic. The box was in the attic, under the eaves. The attic was hot and still. The air was stale with dust. The dust was from old pictures and books. The dust in the air was made u...
I write the way I write.
I don't just write letters. I write laws.
I write because I cannot NOT write.
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's own books - it does not matter whose or where. Simply to be among books, glancing at one here...
Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.
