writing Quotes

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.