When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad things you did do - well that's memoirs.
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied he is content.
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
I think with my right hand.
There is today an extraordinary interest with the data of modern experience per se. Our absorption in our contemporary historical state is very high right now. It's not altogether unlike a similar sit...
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.
In my experience, writers tend to be really good at the inside of their own heads and imaginary people, and a lot less good at the stuff going on outside, which means that quite often if you flirt wit...
To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.
Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.
I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.
With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create.
I write because I know I am only one to control the world I created in my books.
My evolution as a writer? Mother said "stop talking like that", teachers said "you're weird", readers say "best book ever
I'm not a writer, I just express in words!
The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer.
My mouth is not talking, my fingers are!
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will lear...
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.