Write Quotes

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too.

A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

I write in American slang.