But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect..

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was ….

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what..

If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author..

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it..

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but….

I don't know if embarrassed is the right word, about pop, but I prefer the abstract and the distorted in music. And I keep writing these proper melod….

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come..

I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel I'm really right to tell that partic….

Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosoph….

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience..

There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident..

When I want to read a novel, I write one..

The one concession I've made as I've gotten older is that my children are now adults and they're in their twenties and thirties and so I'm careful ab….

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story..

Writing. Love is writing..

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life.

My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the man….

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy..

I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing..

The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you ….