Alexander Pope Quotes

The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.

I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

I've never had writer's block.

I don't know why I write what I write.

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.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

I don't believe in writer's block.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

I'm always trying. Between every book, I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the serious stuff.'

I started writing out all of my feelings, and people asked me, 'Have you ever thought of recording your music?' It was something I'd always thought of, but I'd never really had the confidence.

I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens, and everything comes together.

There are so many things I want to do, so many things I have to say.

I say it's easier to write for other people than write for myself.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.

Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will

Every piece of writing I've done has been something where I feel like I need to get this out of me, whether it's a seed of something personal or an anxiety that turns into a play or an image that's in my mind and haunts me that I'm trying to investigate.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency. Why should I be the one to dream this nightmare?

Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.