Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.
The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.
I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.
Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
I'd love to work with Aaron Sorkin on something. Just the way he writes, he has no fear in writing people that are fiercely intelligent, and I love that.
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.
And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.
The way I write is totally instinctive. I just write what I feel or what I find funny - and hope everyone else agrees.
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.
