John Kluge Quotes

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

I feel I've got 10 books in me.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

People do write books.

I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.

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

When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed almost too good to be true that you could get paid for making things up.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject.

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

I'm the author of several books, including children's books.

I wrote my first play when I was eight. It was about a queen, and I - of course! - was the queen.

The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish anything else.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.

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.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.