Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.
Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.
The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.
My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.
The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
To write is to release the soul. So write. What right have we to leave a thing of such beauty bottled within ourselves?
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.
It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.
Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.
When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.
The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can.
