To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not whether you love it or….

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts….

I like idolator.com a lot. Every once in a while they shred me on there, but it's usually pretty funny..

I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there ….

In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different g….

I know that I can't ever write a song that just sounds completely saccharin. Even if I'm singing about someone being my complete love life, I'm singi….

Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came close to finishi….

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others..

We are a nation within a nation..

All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all original….

I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty lan….

Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the ….

It's always a strange moment when you get up on stage because in a way that's really the fulfilment of what you do, but at the same time when you wri….

Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered. “Courage, Ta­tiana..

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song..

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't..

I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meani….

I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love..

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly..

I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore..

Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the t….