John Lennon Quotes

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

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

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

I am always trying to write.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it's the opposite.

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

I've never stopped writing, never stopped recording.

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

Rap lyrics are really the only thing I've ever written.

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

A writer must experiment with genres. Otherwise, it is a restriction on the craft.

Not writing at all leads to nothing.

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.

Write what you love and love what you write.