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I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

I write from my stomach.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and heard that stays with me. That's just mine. I didn't want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have.

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films.

I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest.

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.