“Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.”
“He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.”
“If you write something that you love beyond all reason, it is wrong and you should strike it out.”
“At night you write out of guilt, but in the morning you write out of hope.”
“Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.”
“I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in.”