I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.
I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.
I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.
Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.
I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.
I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised.
I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.
I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.
When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.
It's such a cliche thing to say. I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music, I want to sing. For me, it's never-ending. I want to do it all, really.
Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
When I started writing about art, there were no curators.
Writing is a pleasure but family is a blessing!
I need to write to be happy.
I don't write romance novels.
Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.
I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.
I sit with the intention to write a record.
I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
