James Howe Quotes

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Writing gave me a life.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

I do actually enjoy the process of putting my thoughts down on paper and having people actually read them.

I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for you and you can't write anybody's book but your own.

We write to make sense of it all.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Part of my therapy is to write.

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

I love to write.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.