My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.
It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.
Don't write about Man; write about a man.
Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.
If you'd blush saying something in person, don't write it.
Write like no one is reading.
Don't cry about it. Write about it.
Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Good writing ain't necessarily good reading.
Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.
Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.
Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.
