There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography..

You have to kill a lot of trees before you write anything good..

As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there is often a "va….

I get happy very easily and very often..

The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life; to go places I haven't been….

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or ho….

The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by t….

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but ….

I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they….

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow..

Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do you have to offer ….

I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried..

For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there….

Blank pages inspire me with terror..

Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick in the paper: yo….

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find ou….

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably..

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated..

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution..

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave..

When I was 14, I tried to stab someone..