No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread….

When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We're having a ….

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving..

I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in th….

Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroa….

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex sto….

When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody reads poetry," an….

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man..

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said ….

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work..

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge.

As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put it in a drawer, the better off I am. So I struct….

There's still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I'm not trying to say I'm not happy with the novels I've written in the p….

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange an….

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people..

I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done i….

It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive, hypercritical atmosphe….

I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say..

There are cinéphiles and cinéphages. Truffaut is a cinéphile. A cinéphage - a film nerd - sits in the front row and writes down the credits. But if y….

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life….