A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

I’m old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I’d tell them where to put it.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

I’ve started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I’d be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

There’s nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, ‚Well, okay, I’m going to do something of high artistic worth.‘

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

I don’t write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

It’s not easy to define poetry.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

I don’t care about money.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

You’re not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

I wrote a few children’s books… not on purpose.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.