Knowledge isn’t love.

The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future..

I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is..

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything..

Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I thi….

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease..

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it..

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me..

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all..

If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair..

The right relationship won't distract you from God. It will bring you closer to Him..

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never t….

I am never going to write for the sake of writing..

If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym..

Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and t….

The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be man….

In novels like 'Kaaterskill Falls', I've been able to write sympathetically about religious people - and beyond that, I've been able to take a religi….

When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Mem….

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the su….

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language B….

It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules..