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While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

I write about true-life type things.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

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

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire.

I write novels and other things.