I know people who have suffered writer's block, and I don't think I've ever had it. A friend of mine, for three years he couldn't write. And he said ….

Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he w….

Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly….

I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem in my life or something I want to work thro….

I can't say I was consciously thinking of the big changes in the music business when I was writing the lyrics, but change, uncertainty, flux, imperma….

Faith is always about the Future..

Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life. Really let go….

Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sound….

I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It put….

I've gone more than 40 years without having to use an alarm clock or go to an office. At this point, I don't think I'd be capable of not writing. I d….

How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, stil….

I'm in no rush to become extremely famous..

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory..

Words are where most change begins..

Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write be….

There's nobody playing better than J.R. Sweezy.

I have seen the future! Go back!.

I try to find clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When you're writing a biography, ….

I never, ever would or did rob anyone in my life..

Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing..

I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve..