For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.
I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives.
Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.
The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people - that's writing.
I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to do but write.
Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.
I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.
I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it's really nice. I bought a typewriter, and I really like to write on the typewriter sometimes. It's a fun little hobby.
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!
I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.
I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about.
But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.
I write across several genres. I’m a slut for words. I can’t keep it in my literary pants.
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.
I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the fluff words.
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.
