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Writing Quotes

All women are strong, and we don't need to write stronger female roles; what we need to start writing is real women that have emotions and have real-life thoughts.
The story is always better than your ability to write it
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written
She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up
I write to find out what I'm talking about
Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.
So when I started writing my own stuff, it was with a lot of combinations and time changes and power.
Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me