With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and ….

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road..

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty..

There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth; and nothing ….

I write to breathe life back into memory..

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anythin….

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the ….

Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the wr….

I was strangely looking forward to writing about my DUI arrest, only because I've known for four years that I was gonna write about it somehow. I dun….

Anyone who knows me knows I can be a control freak with things I love doing. I love doing fashion and I love writing, so everything I've done I'm rea….

It's exciting to do something you're writing. And it's also a lot easier to memorize because you wrote it..

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight..

No, I don't think a 68-year-old copywriter . . . can write with the kids. That he's as creative. That he's as fresh. But he may be a better surgeon. ….

I taught everyone a very bad lesson at my publisher because they actually gave me deadlines this time and I'm now meeting them. I used to say, "Here'….

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living..

I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by any stretch of the imagination a….

The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never written, or talked about (t….

I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!.

The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order..

I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even ….

Basically, I am a night owl. My wife is an early bird, so she goes to bed around 9:30, and my kids are in bed about 8. So, if I am home, I will usual….