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Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. 
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. 
When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contr... 
Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away,... 
George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don&#... 
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until... 
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it... 
It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. A... 
Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I... 
The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as s... 
I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't wa... 
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how t... 
I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.&... 
I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love... 
I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that'... 
I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes whe... 
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a w... 
I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that'... 
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't w... 
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write ab... 
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop... 
The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to b... 
My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'L... 
I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers&#... 
Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others... 
I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bit... 
Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the mu... 
When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinkin... 
I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that ... 
I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and c... 
I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. An... 
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't k... 
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. 
I really - I don't take my work that seriously, and I think that's what keeps me loose. If I... 
To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know,... 
If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice ... 
I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write fo... 
I write every day. Most weekdays, I write about ten hours a day. That doesn't mean eight hours o... 
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for... 
I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, a... 
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write lik... 
Starting after 60, I thought, 'I'm not going to be able to write a book of poems on the 70s.... 
What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't thi... 
For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lo... 
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo... 
The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending... 
I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, w... 
I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting. 
You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ... 
When I write, I have a sort of secret kinship of readers in all countries who don't know each ot... 
I'm crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I wouldn't know how to write an episode of it. 
For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. ... 
I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which ... 
Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to sta... 
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. 
There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain... 
I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or... 
When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits a... 
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during ... 
Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of s... 
I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by ... 
I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I h... 
I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everythi... 
My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod. 
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. 
Divinity means unfolding and expressing life in new ways. Divinity means radiating peace, bliss and ... 
In reality, we live in every one. Deep down there is a rose in every heart. 
If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a '... 
The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors... 
You know, before I would think, my cab driver hates me. Now I think my limo driver hates me. 
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?. 
Love is our strength to overcome the evils of the world. 
Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else. 
Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left. 
Children are poor men's riches. 
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. 
Diseases are the tax on pleasures. 
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. 
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now. 
If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody. 
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kind...