A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere travels on the ground sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it and has a hard time and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

The moving finger writes and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit can cancel half a line of it.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge and if he's good the older he gets the better he writes.

For someone who writes fiction in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious it's essential to be free.