Quotes on Writing Love

I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me, it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The most important things are the hardest to say

And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.