“There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.”

“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”

“I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.”

“It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.”

“I feel that if any songs are gonna come out of World War III, we'd better start writing them now.”

“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”

“The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.”

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”

“I couldn't give a damn, [he said]. Writing is where I succeeded. I was a flop in everything else.”

“Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors; they're called artists.”