Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one - it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

Tears are words that need to be written.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear, or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life, and one is as good as the other.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

I have my favorite cat who is my paperweight on my desk while I am writing.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

Each age it is found must write its own books, or rather each generation for the next succeeding.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.