Marjane Satrapi Quotes

I prefer writing originals.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes.

There are millions of people who think that romance isn't real writing. But the only person who can make you real, make your books real, is you.

I can't emphasize enough how much of a writer I am.

Of course, I write. I have stories to tell. But I don't want to do superficial stuff any more.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

Just write what comes to you.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

When you write, don't say, "I'm going to write a poem." That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation of yourself; say, "I am free to write the worst junk in the world."

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

Writing tips are like mini skirts. Sometimes they fit perfectly, sometimes they make you cry, and sometimes you can reuse the material and sew yourself a pillow or something.

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

Robert Ludlum, all of them, write the absolute best they can. You can't tone it down. You just do what you do, and if it comes out literary, so be it.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.