Letter writing can be seen as a gift because someone has taken his/her time to write and think and express love.
A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out
I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.
I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.
I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.
I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
Writing things was important, wasn't it? Nakata asked. 'Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product is completely meaningless.
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.
I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.
To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse and repeat.
Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.
In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.
I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.
I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience.
If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.
As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
