I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.
I definitely script things out. I definitely write things down and try to write jokes. Often, they're terrible. I often write terrible, terrible jokes.
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything.
Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down.
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.
When you write an album and you're writing about relationships, the stuff that I've been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it's that one percent that always inspires you to write a song.
I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!
My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.
I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write.
I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write for a while, I'm not a write-every-day writer.
I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.
I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.
