We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.
Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.
I write for the still, small possibility of justice.
I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
Even now, it's so funny how much we do have in common and how much her experiences were similar to mine. But I just wanted to be like 'If I'm going to do it, I'm going to write all of my own music, every lyric, and all this stuff.
Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me -- this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?
It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
I'd write over and over, 'I will not throw into coverage. '
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.
I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.
By writing, you learn to write.
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
The love story between the hero and the heroine has to be at the center of the book. I think that's pretty true in my books. I usually write a secondary love story, with maybe nontraditional characters. Sometimes I write older characters. I'm interested in female friendships, and family relationships. So I don't write the traditional romance, where you just have the hero and the heroine's love story. I like intertwining relationships.
It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way, and over however many tweets, you start to create a character for yourself.
You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.
A true poet is more than just a man who can write a poem with a pen. A true poet writes poetry with his very life. A true poet doesn't use poetic devices to con the heart of a woman but uses the beauty of all that is poetic to serve, cherish, and express love to the heart of a woman. Just as a true warrior is not a conqueror of femininity but a protector of femininity, a true poet is not just a wooer of a woman's heart but one who knows how to nurture and plant love in a woman's heart. Simply put, a true poet is a man who knows how to be intimate with a lover - first and foremost with Christ.
There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.
I can write a book in probably three months.