I think young writers should get other degrees first social sciences arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

As long as I don't write about the government religion politics and other institutions I am free to print anything.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers only minor ones.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having but it would not be a good song in my eyes until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song it's just complaining.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

People write negatives things cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them doesn't sell.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

It is a fact often observed that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it though that the critics think you can't do it.

Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world of character my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past just as it is bound to modify the future.

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about because this was the new world that was emerging.

While we can remember the past we cannot write the future. Only our children the future of our community can do that.

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way but I feel like maybe my songs were like before their time or something.

Frontiersmen good and bad gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future have been my camp companions. Thus I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.