“Now, I can tell you about some women writers who truly are fantastic. One is Anna Kavan. She writes stories like I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“...slowly I discerned a familiar shift in my concentration. That compulsion that prohibits me from completely surrendering to a work of art,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't consider writing a quiet, closet act. I consider it a real physical act. When I'm home writing on the typewriter,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I like making records right now 'cause I can express myself that way in a very immediate, physical sense. You can always… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I find it painful when I'm without anything. But I work in multiple fields. If I can't write, I find myself taking… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening closely to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that deformed me.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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