The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.
I've tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.
When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.
I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of the narrative, then I try to fit them in.
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
Sometimes I get in writing moods and I want to write a song every couple of days. Then sometimes I may not write a song for three weeks. It's just according to how it's hitting me at the time.
I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come.
For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
Griffin Mill: Just... stop with the postcards... David Kahane: [enraged] I don't WRITE POSTCARDS! I WRITE SCRIPTS!
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.
I work on a word count basis, so I have to write three thousand words a day. I can write them in the morning, I can write them in the evening; as long as they get done.
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
I write from my stomach.
Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
I write on all instruments.
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