I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.
Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.
There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.
You're writing every moment in your mind but not putting it down on paper. Write your thoughts; it will be beautiful.
Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.
You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.
Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.
A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid.
Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.
I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.
Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.
