Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.
You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.
I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.
I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.
I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
I find that writing is as magical as the genre I write in. When the story comes alive and takes over, it's truly a journey to another world.
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.
If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself.
I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.
I used to live with J.D. Souther, and I would watch him write. He's be sitting, he'd say something, and then he'd write it down. That's craft.
For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.
