Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life.
There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.
Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.
I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges.
The way I write, words can means lots of different things.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner.
Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.
I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.
You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.
You can, of course, write to inspire others… but most importantly, you must write to inspire yourself.
I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.
I write about the things I feel strongly about.
I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.
I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.
In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future.
I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.
