Writing

“I don't set out to play real people; what usually motivates me is the quality of the writing.”

“The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.”

“On ne trouve plus rien à dire alors on fait des phrases, on arrange la vérité.”

“I like the mystery of songwriting; of not knowing what I'm writing about until it becomes clear later on.”

“I feel least like a writer when I am working on a book.”

“Je ne sais en quels termes vous exprimer ma reconnaissance. Ma plume est comme ma voix sur la scène, mais mon cœur est comme mon visage.”

“The way of writing was more important than the theme.”

“Merey qalam ki asmat meri maa behan ki izzat sey ziada aziz hai.”

“My only duty as a poet is to defend the use of language.”

“What I find compelling is to write stories about people in Latin America who otherwise might be invisible.”

“It’s not about you, it’s about the story.”

“All these beautiful lives are the reason I write.”

“The idea of writing Mary Prince’s history was first suggested by herself.”

“What am I writing into? What am I writing over?”

““habiendo reunido hasta hoy en un repertorio casi dos mil autores de la América Septentrional””

“Words are, like to me, as bricks are to a bricklayer.”

“In all my stories, in all my work, I do NOT write about the Filipino, I write about MAN.”

“Tidak ada orang yang bisa melarang saya untuk menulis.”