Write Quotes

You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back!

People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.

You don't write a book to show off.

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

I let people say and write what they want.

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?