Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.

Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.

We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.

In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.

There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.

Little children are all writers.

I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.

When you are in harmony with love and positivity, everything you want will be pushed in your direction and given to you.

Hanging around people you’re smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect.

The death has an only color.

Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.

I'm sorry if me being turned on turns you on.

How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.

Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.

I have a practice of really not talking about the competition. I'm from the old school.

We're going to bake this planet, and be a curse to all species, including our own, if we don't find an alternative to carbon-based fuel. That's the #1 problem.